Tehran  - Iran will come up with new nuclear developments by the beginning of April this year, Iranian Vice-President Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh said Wednesday, indicating a probable increase of the number of centrifuges.

"We will have good nuclear news again on April 9," said Aqazadeh, also head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, in a news conference in Bushehr, southern Iran.

Tehran  - Russia's nuclear energy chief visited Iran to inspect the progress of the joint nuclear power plant at the port city Bushehr in southern Iran, the news network Khabar reported Wednesday.

Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's federal nuclear energy agency, and his Iranian counterpart Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh went to Bushehr to get acquainted with the latest developments at the plant, Khabar said.

Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said last week that Kiriyenko and Aqazadeh would attend an initial test of the controversial plant, which has already suffered from a number of delays.

Vienna  - It's an argument over one figure: With 1,010 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium, does Iran have the capability to make a nuclear weapon? Or is the country still some technical steps away from the bomb, as some nuclear analysts say?

After the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued its latest report last week on Iran, several media suggested that the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog had determined that Tehran had enough fuel for a bomb.

Berlin  - Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor, informed the current German government before his trip to Teheran to meet with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Berlin spokesman said Monday.

German Jewish leaders reacted with shock to the trip, because of the Iranian leader's previous denial of the Holocaust.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy spokesman, Thomas Steg, said there was no cause to criticize Schroeder. He said he assumed that Schroeder's remarks to Iranian leaders were in accord with German policy towards Iran.

Tehran - Feb. 23 : Iran''s first nuclear power plant is all set to undergo a critical series of tests beginning Wednesday before it starts its full-scale operation later this year, Iranian state radio has aired.

Bushehr plant is a symbolic facet of Iran''s controversial nuclear program. The United States, Israel and some European nations had charged Iran for trying to produce nuclear weapons. However, Iranian leaders have maintained that the country''s nuclear ambitions are peaceful, the Washington Post reports.

Tehran  - Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder met Saturday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after delivering a speech in Tehran criticizing the Iranian leader's stance against the existence of Israel and his denial of the Holocaust.

The meeting took place behind closed doors in the president's offices. A brief statement afterwards said the two had exchanged ideas about regional and international issues. Ahmadinejad also urged global cooperation to solve the world's problems.