Iran has put forward a proposal to Russia to establish a joint nuclear consortium to supply fuel for its Bushehr nuclear plant. Iran’s official news agency IRNA has quoted country’s Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi as saying Tehran will not stop enrichment to prove itself to be capable of producing uranium and transforming it into plates. Iran has started loading fuel into the Bushehr plant, its nuclear power plant on 5 days ago. Following the initial fuelling of the plant, Western powers said that Iran did not need to enrich uranium domestically, arguing that Russia was there to provide all the fuel for the reactor at the plant.