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Russian help with nuclear reactor technology is vital to Iran's nuclear weapons program because much of the knowledge and equipment carries over to building nuclear weapons. Also, light water reactors produce plutonium, which can be reprocessed and used to make A bombs. That is how we produced the bomb that we dropped on Nagasaki and why North Korea's spent reactor fuel is such an issue.

In addition, Russia has provided essential help to Iran's ballistic missile missile program. Russia has been promiscuous in supplying equipment, materials, and technical knowledge useful to Iran's biological and chemical weapons programs. And Russia has helped North Korea with similar weapons programs, with less known to the public because of the isolated, Stalinist nature of that regime.

To return to the question posed by the original post -- why are both conservative and liberal American media so "anti-Russian" -- I submit that it is because the facts are so damning. In addition to the points made in previous posts, Russian has done much to heap discredit and ill will upon herself by helping Iran (and North Korea) develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the means to deliver them. Since these are vile regimes that hate and routinely threaten America, one ought not to be surprised that Americans do not like Russia for aligning with and helping them.