Although it is ready to turn the Bushehr nuclear power plant over to Iran in a just a few short weeks, Iran is now playing hard to get and isn’t in any rush to take over the plant.
Fereydun Abbas-Davani, the outgoing chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said Iran will accept full control over Bushehr only when Iran receives the required guarantees from the Russian contractor.
He didn’t say what those guarantees involved. But he clearly was in no rush to get control of a plant that was supposed to have been handed over to Iran in January 1999, more than 14 years ago.
It isn’t known if Davani’s successor, Ali-Akbar Salehi, would have the same reluctance.