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2007-03-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by ryuge 2007-03-13 06:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let that sucker sit unfinished for 9 months and it's as good as destroyed, 1/2 the piping will have be sold to various brothers-in-law.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-13 08:04|| 2007-03-13 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Based on Russia's comments, I wonder if Iran proposed something to the effect of: 'we can't pay you now, but if you move forward, tensions continue to ratchet up, driving up oil prices, which gives us the money to pay you later (and which raises the value of your own oil stocks)'

Posted by Geoffro 2007-03-13 10:48|| 2007-03-13 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Iran may have a cash problem, but Russia knows that once the reactor is ready for fueling, it gets destroyed. So Iran needs to pay up before any more work gets done. This reactor will never be fueled. And even the Russians don't want to be tied to radioactive contamination of the gulf, so there Bushehr sits. So Russia gets its money for construction of the reactor complex and Iran gets nothing for its money.

Works for me.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-13 11:08|| 2007-03-13 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I didn't know that Cheney visited Moscow on his recent trip.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-03-13 14:57|| 2007-03-13 14:57|| Front Page Top

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