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Who Will Rebuild Iran if there's a Nuclear War?

Here's a curious story. Ynet is reporting that Israeli experts are helping to rebuild Iran after recent earthquakes there. The experts were well-treated and even spent Pesach (Passover) with the Jewish community in Teheran (which still numbers 26,000 people!). I wonder who would come to rebuild if Iran were hit by a nuclear second strike....

Three Israeli infrastructure consultants who returned to Israel at the end of the week from a secret visit in Iran on the invitation of a Tehran official, told Israel's leading daily Yedioth Ahronoth they were stunned by their stay in the country.

The Israeli consultants were sent to Iran on behalf of a Dutch company that is partly owned by an Israeli. The company recruited the Israeli engineers and advisors, who specialize in infrastructure rehabilitation works, and flew them to Iran with special travel passes, after leaving their Israeli passports behind in Holland.

"We were amazed to discover the gap between Israel's public conflict with Iran, and the depth of the commercial cooperation between the countries, estimated at dozens of millions of dollars a year. We were greeted warmly and felt no hostility on the part of our hosts," one of the Israeli experts said.

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According to the Israeli consultant, the most exciting part of the visit took place when the mission arrived in the Busher region, which made headlines recently due to the nuclear reactor located in the area. "Our escort, an English-speaker, told us: There is something else here in Busher, but this will be a surprise for you'."

Read the whole thing.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:41 PM