Iran took out an advertisement in the April 20th edition of the International Herald Tribune seeking contract bids for two large scale nuclear power plants. From today's Philadelphia Inquirer:
The ad...includes an e-mail address for a "Mr. Esmaeili," the address of Iran's Permanent Mission to the U.N. in Vienna, and a bank-account number at Austria Bank-Creditanstalt, complete with SWIFT code, for interested bidders to pay a nonrefundable fee for a set of bidding specifications. The ad further spells out that any ensuing bids are to be accompanied by a bid bond, all leading to the appointed day, Aug. 8, when the bids are to be opened at Atomic Energy Organization of Iran headquarters in Tehran.
The ad includes a telephone number in Austria. I phoned yesterday and reached a man, who in broken English, gave me the number of the Iranian ambassador's office at Iran's Permanent Mission to the U.N. in Vienna. A polite woman answered, and confirmed, in good English, that, yes, the ad was genuine.
The International Tribue is owned by the New York Times and reaches more than 240,000 readers in more than 180 countries. According to The Jerusalem Post, a similar ad also ran in the Financial Times on April 25.
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