Iran opens first nuclear power plant

A security official watches journalists during a tour of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr as Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant, a potent symbol of its rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb Photograph: Raheb Homavandi/Reuters

Photographers and cameramen take pictures of the reactor in construction at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP

An image grab taken from footage broadcast by Iran's state-run Arabic-language Al-Alam TV shows officials and engineers during the launching of the Russian-built first nuclear power plant in Iran Photograph: AFP

The model of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is displayed during a ceremony initiating the transfer of Russia-supplied fuel to the facility in the southern port Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP

Iranian women security officials of the Bushehr nuclear plant observe the media Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

Sergei Kiriyenko (second from left), head of the Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, shakes hands with Ali-Akbar Salehi, chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Photograph: Raheb Homavandi/Reuters