Overview

• Iran Hormoz Company and Russia’s Rosatom agreed to build four 1,255‑megawatt Generation‑III units on a 500‑hectare site in Sirik, Hormozgan province.
• Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev and Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami signed the contract.
• Rosatom separately reported a memorandum of understanding with Iran to cooperate on small modular reactors.
• The announcement landed hours before an expected UN Security Council move to restore snapback sanctions triggered by Britain, France and Germany.
• Russia and China proposed a six‑month delay at the Council that diplomats said was unlikely to pass, as Iran maintains its program is peaceful and currently runs only the 1‑gigawatt Bushehr plant.