Russia has agreed to construct eight nuclear power plants in Iran, the Islamic republic announced on Monday.

Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, said that Tehran has inked a deal with Moscow for the building of four nuclear plants in the southern coastal city of Bushehr, where Iran already operates a nuclear plant.

Four others, Razaei said, will be opened up around the country as part of the deal with Russia.