The United States says Russia's provision of fuel for Iran's first nuclear power plant shows that the Islamic Republic has no need to have its own uranium enrichment capability, RFE/Rl reported.
State Department spokesman Darby Holladay also said that the United States accepts that Iran's Russian-built reactor at Bushehr is designed to provide civilian nuclear power, and that Washington does not view the plant as a proliferation risk.
U.S. ally Israel, however, has denounced the fueling of the Iranian reactor, calling it "totally unacceptable."
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, in a statement, called on the international community to increase the pressure on Iran to cease enrichment activities and the construction of reactors.
The U.S. and Israeli statements were issued after engineers, monitored by United Nations inspectors, on August 21 began loading atomic fuel supplied by Russia into the Bushehr reactor in southern Iran. Russia will also remove the nuclear waste to avoid any misuse of the material.
The U.S., Israel and some of their allies have alleged that Iran's nuclear program, which involves the enrichment of uranium, is aimed at the eventual production of atomic weapons.
Iran denies this, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful energy generation.