Is Iran threatening Russia ?
The Russia based German Internet newspaper “Russland Aktuell” reports that Russia seems to get prepared to evacuate Russian nationals from Iran.
In their report “Iran droht Russland, Moskau denkt an Evakuierung” of Monday, March 26 2007, “Russland Aktuell” claims to have information that Moscow is getting prepared to evacuate Russian nationals from the construction site at Busher / Iran where Russia is engaged in the construction of a nuclear power plant.
There are already visibile tensions between Russia and Iran over this project after Iran stopped the financing and refuses to live up to financial obligations towards Russia.
The reasons for this seem to be based on Russia’s support of sanctions and resolutions by the UN Security Council regarding Iran’s nuclear industry.
Irina Jessipova, the spokesperson of Russia’s “Atomstroiexport”, publicly rejected the idea of ongoing preparations to evacute Russian personnel form the site in Busher, or elswhere in Iran, but the Russian newspaper “Kommersant” seems to have sources within “Rosatom” , Russia’s nuclear authority, clearly speaking about the planned evacuation.
“Russland Aktuell” claims to have informations regarding several Russian firms in Iran sending e-mails to their employees, notifiying them to get prepared for the evacuation.
