Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The importance of customer service in the turnkey nuke biz
The Russians, it seems, are not delighting the mullahs with the total quality experience they seem to expect:
Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that any delay by Moscow in the completion of Bushehr Power Plant will leave a bad impact in the minds of the Iranian people about cooperation with Russia.
Speaking to reporters during a press conference here in Tehran on Wednesday, he expressed surprise at the recent remarks made by a Russian official that a delayed payments by Iran will result in the delayed completion of Bushehr power plant by Moscow.
"During my meeting with the head of the National Security Commission of the Russian national Security yesterday, I told him that we view the power plant in Bushehr as a symbol of the two countries' cooperation, that the facility must be handed over to Iran on time and that there should not be an excuse or justification for delaying the delivery. And they endorsed my views," he said.
Haddad Adel continued, "The other party also said that they do not view such statements as a serious impediment to the prompt completion and delivery of the power plant."
"Yet, I warn Russians that any prolongation in the delivery of Bushehr power plant will leave a bad effect in the minds of the Iranian people," he stated, adding that Russians seem to be experiencing financial disorder among themselves.
The interesting question is whether this dispute is purely a result of the hilarious intersection of Russian and Iranian incompetence. Is there a chance that the Russians, for all their recent nettlesome tweaking of the United States, really don't want the Iranians to make plutonium in their heavy-water reactor?
1 Comments:
By 
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Thu Feb 22, 11:17:00 AM:
TH readers should have a look at this article on the Asia Times:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/IB21Ag01.html
"Russia's Hudna with the Muslim World."
It talks about the very issue TH is raising.
