Alexander Wilke, a ThyssenKrupp spokesman, wrote in an e-mail to the Post that he could not say whether his company would be represented at the NUMOV-Iran Forum because "200,000 employees work worldwide for ThyssenKrupp."
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, left, speaks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, during their meeting in Teheran, February.
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"Spot transactions" is how transport engineering giant MAN spokesman Dominque Nadelhofer termed the volume of business activity between his company and Teheran. He told the Post that he "will not speak about numbers" with respect to revenue, but said that MAN supplies Iran with trucks ranging in weight from six to 50 tons, and both urban and extra-urban buses.
MAN, according to Nadelhofer, also provides Iran with "diesel engines for power plants and ships," as well as compressors and turbo-compressors for its gas industry and pipelines.
Nadelhofer said MAN had a responsibility to the Jewish state and to unearth the firm's Nazi-era conduct. Asked if there was a contradiction in doing business with a regime that seeks to obliterate Israel and denies the Holocaust, Nadelhofer said he "sees no contradiction" because MAN had dealt with its Nazi history.
MAN was "checking" whether the company would participate in the NUMOV forum, and could not comment, he said.
