Iran has offered France to complete the construction of nuclear power plants in Darhoen

Almaty. December 21. Silkroadnews - After the lifting of sanctions, France may consider the completion of the nuclear power plant in southern Iran, Darhoen. Such a proposal was made by chairman of the Council Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to the chairman of the French Senate Gerard Larcher, write the Iranian media.
"Your country has had a contract with the regime of Shah Pahlavi on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Darhoen Ahwaz. I think that after the lifting of sanctions you will take the necessary steps for the continuation and completion of construction", - said Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Tehran and Paris have been negotiating on a long-term cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. For example, in 1977 was signed a contract for the construction of two nuclear power plants - on Karun river near the city of Ahwaz in southern Iran. Under the contract, the NPP had to be built in exchange for Iranian oil to France. The transaction amount was 11 billion francs. In December 1977, the parties signed an agreement on granting a loan to Paris to build two nuclear power plants.
After the Islamic Revolution, Iran has unilaterally terminated the contract, but did not refuse from the plans to build nuclear power plants in Darhoen.
In 2008, Iran announced that it has begun to build their own nuclear power plant in Darhoen, which was to be completed in 2017. The new project was envisaged that nuclear power plant will work on the nuclear fuel produced within the country. Power light water reactor was to be 360 ​​MW. Then it was reported that all stages of the construction of nuclear power plants are under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but in the end the construction of nuclear power plants was suspended. Now this project is proposed to be completed by France.