Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said that the Bushehr nuclear power plant will join the national grid in September, the State IRIB TV website reported on Monday.

In fresh remarks on Sunday night, Salehi said that Iran will celebrate joining of the Bushehr nuclear power plant to the national grid in early September, said the report.

On May 31, Salehi said that his country was getting ready to connect Bushehr nuclear power plant to the national grid in one month.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier in the month that Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will be operational within weeks.

The last problem which took place in one of the pumps of the plant caused a two-month delay in plan, Salehi was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Construction of the Bushehr plant was started in 1975 by several German companies. However, the work halted when the United States imposed an embargo on hi-tech supplies to Iran after the 1979 revolution. Russia signed a contract with Iran to complete the construction in 1998.

Completion of the plant's construction was postponed several times by mounting technical and financial challenges and pressure from the United States.