Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant is nearing completion and the start-up of its reactor will soon become "irreversible", the Russian state-owned company that is building the power station said on Tuesday.
Russia has already delivered nuclear fuel under a $1 billion contract to build the Bushehr plant, on the Gulf coast in southwest Iran, and Iranian officials say the reactor is likely to be started up soon.
The head of Atomstroyexport, the company building the plant, said on Monday it was nearing completion, according to a company spokeswoman.
"Atomstroyexport in December 2008 - February 2009 will carry out technological work at Bushehr which will put the Iranian atomic station on the irreversible final strait," the spokeswoman quoted company President Leonid Reznikov as saying.
Russia signed a contract to build the plant in 1995 on the site of an earlier project begun in the 1970s by German firm Siemens. Siemens's project was disrupted by Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Let's see, ratchet up tensions with the West, thereby increasing the price of oil....check.
Sell massive amounts of own oil, using threats of cutoffs to get more money out of importing countries...check.
Profit.
That's what this is all about. If Iran were supplying Chechyan's with weapons, you'd see a WHOLE different Russia. But because the Iranian leadership is anti-US, they're happy to stroke tensions as much as they can to get rich off of oil revenues and put themselves back onto the world stage.
This is why a lot of Russian government officials are against an Obama Presidency. With Obama talking instead of rattling saber's, the price of oil plummets, and Russia loses billions of dollars, thus, making them less likely to be on the world stage as a power player.
Travis
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