The International Herald Tribune (IHT) is under fire for publishing an advertisement from the Government of Iran, seeking bids to build two pressurized Light Water Reactors in the Iranian Bushehr Province.
According to security experts, bidding on light water reactors "violates the spirit" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1737, which prohibits all states from the supply, sale or transfer of goods and technologies which could contribute to Iran's enrichment related processing or heavy water related activities of nuclear weapons delivery systems.
An IHT spokesman, asked whether accepting such an ad was appropriate, wrote: "We believe that advertising should be as free and open as the dictates of honesty and decency allow. In our view, advertising is an essential ingredient in the broad concept of a free press."
Was it Lenin who said that a capitalist will sell you the very rope with which to hang himself?
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