TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) - Iran's ambassador to Moscow Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi said Tuesday that Russians will launch Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant soon, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

    Russians are not at all dubious about completing Iran's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, Sajjadi was quoted as saying.

    "The two sides (both Russians and Iranians) have mobilized their human resources even beyond the specified plans," he told Fars news agency.

    Russians intend to put Bushehr nuclear plant into operation by the end of 2009, and there are several tests which should be conducted on the plant before it can go online, he said, adding that "previous tests have been successful and there have just remained two more tests to be carried out" before the plant can start operation.

    The operation of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been Iranians' old dream.

    The country's 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant originally started in the mid-1970s by Siemens of Germany but was abandoned with the outbreak of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

    Iran and Russia, after reaching an agreement on nuclear cooperation in 1992, signed a contract in January 1995 to finish the construction of the plant, the completion of which has been repeatedly delayed.