Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on 28 May that Russia has no intention of ending its nuclear-energy cooperation with Iran because such cooperation does not violate any international laws. Commenting on remarks by U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, who said on 27 May that the U.S. administration is urging Russia to end the program, Ivanov said that no one can find fault with Russia in this regard. Boucher\'s remarks were the administration\'s reaction to media reports that Tehran has secretly begun construction of two new nuclear facilities. The Atomic Energy Ministry, which is fulfilling an $800 million contract to build a nuclear-power station in Bushehr, issued a statement on 28 May saying that it has no reason to think Tehran is in violation of international nonproliferation regulations and that it will continue with the Bushehr project. (Interfax)