Friday, February 23, 2007
Persian bazaar: This is what comes from corrupt accounting
Who among you is not extraordinarily entertained by the accusations flying between the mullahs and the Russians over who owes whom for the heavy-water reactor that the erstwhile Commies are building in Tehran?
Tehran said Thursday it is ready to resolve any problems over its purported failure to pay Russia for the construction of a nuclear power plant in southern Iran within 10 days.
The Russian nuclear equipment and services monopoly said Wednesday it has sent its Iranian partners a timeframe for settling an outstanding debt for the construction of the Bushehr NPP.
Atomstroyexport, the contractor for the NPP project, said Tuesday that Tehran has not made payments for the $1 billion NPP project in over a month.
"Iran transferred all the necessary payments to the Russian company Atomstroyexport for the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on time, in conformity with the current contract," said Mohammad Saidi, deputy director of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency.
There is also this bit, which is fascinating to us non-experts:
Atomstroyexport said the lack of funding could slow the work on the project, adding that third countries are involved in equipment deliveries.
Which other countries? Anybody out there want to figure out the answer while I'm flying home from Chicago tonight?
3 Comments:
By 
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Fri Feb 23, 10:12:00 PM:
Could just be a trick similar to that of shipowners registering in Panama or Liberia. Hide the country of origin. If I had to guess, which is all this is, I'd go with either Dubai or Bahrain.
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Fri Feb 23, 11:23:00 PM:
The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a group of nuclear supplier countries. The NSG has 45 members: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States.
In addition, India has manufacturers of nuclear power plant components. A couple of other countries such as Vietnam may produce components, too.
Take your pick.
By , at
Sat Feb 24, 11:27:00 PM:
And the Euroweenie Union who sold to the terrorist sponsoring nations
