Moscow Releases Nuclear Fuel for Iran’s Bushehr Reactor

[lovuian]

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=190790

On June 8, the week before the G8 opened in Germany, Moscow released the long-withheld nuclear fuel for Iran’s atomic reactor in Busheh. One immediate result has been the stiffening of Tehran’s negative posture, sparking what nuclear watchdog director Mohammed ElBaradei called Monday, June 11, a confrontation that needs to be urgently defused.

Special nuclear containers were loaded on a train in the yard of the manufacturers JSC Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant on June 2-3. They contained two types of nuclear fuel, WER-440 and WER-1000.

The special train then headed out of Novosibirsk to Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, 2,000 km away. There, the containers awaited loading aboard a Russian ship destined for Bandar Anzili, the Iranian military port on the Caspian shore. According to our Iranian sources, a fleet of Iranian trucks was waiting at the other end outside Bandar Anzili port to transport the nuclear fuel and drive it slowly and carefully to Bushehr, a distance of 850km, arriving June 10 or 11.

Sources added the journey was interrupted by holdups ordered by the Kremlin..
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Putin is going to have a interesting meeting at Kennebuckport with Bush

Its all about Bushehr...how ironic

[Rydz777]

1. Gen William Odom - who among other distinctions has

delivered the Democratic weekly address - has said that it is inevitable that Iran will get nuclear weapons and we might as well accept that inevitability. The Putin regime seems bent on helping Iran reach this goal. To me it seems irrational for Russia to follow this course, but the world right now is full of irrationality.

[bananas]

2. We're back to the cold-war chess game

The US nuke-for-mangoes deal let India not sign the NPT.
So Russia promotes a pawn to a queen.
Before the checkmate, there will be a queen exchange.

[Purveyor]

3. LibertyPost.org and Debka as a "source"? /chuckle indeed eom

[lovuian]

4. its not true then?

have you proof its not true ???

Moscow has a deal to fuel Iran's nuclear reactor that is known by everybody

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/10/10109982.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001857910_russnukes14.html

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660196946,00.html

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w11/idw2007.03.13.20.14.26.html
The Russian company Atomstroiexport has refused to carry out its commitments on the Bushehr nuclear power plant project, alleging Iran has not paid bills related to the plant's construction.<3> Referring to considerable delays occurred in opening Bushehr power plant, Aqazadeh voiced hope the Russian side would not enter political issues at the current circumstances that there are talks about resolutions against Iran by the UN Security Council. "The Russian contractor has changed more than eight of its managers so far. It has received payments from Iran which have not been used in due sectors," he said.<4>

"Once it gets the nuclear fuel, Iran will gain new status in talks with the international community," the Russian daily Kommersant said Monday. While Iran emphasizes that it has the legal right to develop an enrichment program to generate nuclear power, the U.N. Security Council has called on Tehran to end enrichment activities and imposed limited sanctions in December over its refusal to do so.<5>

"Iran has paid the cost of the project on schedule and the remaining part of the payment which makes up dlrs 12.7 million was also paid on March 1, 2007 in advance to help the contractor speed up delivery of the power plant. IAEO said that Iranian government and nation expect the Russian government to fulfill its commitments and deliver nuclear fuel for Bushehr nuclear power plant on schedule.<6> If we can't launch the station in September then we cannot deliver the fuel according to the old timetable either. Moscow and Tehran have been bickering publicly over what Russia says are tens of millions of dollars in delayed payments for its work on Bushehr, Iran's first nuclear power station. Iran denies it has missed payments on the plant, a sensitive project as Tehran has come under pressure from the United States and the European Union over its nuclear ambitions.<7> "It is deplorable they delayed in launching the Bushehr plant. The decision shows there is no such thing as a guarantee to deliver nuclear fuel," Larijani was quoted as saying. The official also insisted Russia obey the contract with Iran, saying "Russia has to fulfill its promises on time." Referring to the latest report that Russia delayed the fuel delivery because Iran rejected to suspend its uranium enrichment work, Larijani denied the rumors and said "no such message came from Russia."<8> "Unfortunately, the Iranians are abusing our constructive relations," news agencies quoted the source as saying. The source added Iran "cannot play forever" on its good relations with Russia and "it is unacceptable for us to have an Iran with a nuclear bomb or the potential to create one". Iran today issued a bank note with a nuclear symbol in a move seen as an example of its determination to press ahead with uranium enrichment in the face of international sanctions.<9>

Liberty post article says

that Russia has fuflled its contractural duties and Iran has paid them that doesn't sound like a surprise...but our news media wouldn't report it wonder why???

I nuclear Iran will not be tolerated by Bush & Cheney company so I guess in due time we will see who is going to have the last chuckle

[lovuian]

5. Any proof yet

just wondering out there???
Cause if its true then comment by the Pope to Bush about Putin seems significant

[Purveyor]

6. You are asking me to 'prove a negative'? Try again.

I did take a peek on my favorite news search engine just moments ago yet the only mention of Moscow's release of nuclear fuel to Iran is from the wholly unreliable, zionist house organ...Debka.

[MisterHowdy]

7. seems a little surreal

Why haven't I heard of this before.