Iran energy minister Reza Ardakanian declared that Russia may build a new nuclear power plant capable of generating up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity.
The Islamic Republic currently has the capacity to produce 1,000 megawatts of nuclear electricity. Iran already runs one Russian-built nuclear reactor at Bushehr, its first. Russia signed a deal with Iran in 2014 to build up to eight more reactors in the country.
