Russia rejects US call, says will help Iran make N-plant

The Times of India ^ | 20APR06 | The Times of India

[familyop]

MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday rejected a US call for Moscow to end its cooperation with Iran in constructing the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Foreign ministry spokes-man Mikhail Kamynin said that the plant had no relation to Iran's work in uranium enrichment. "The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclusively in the competence of the UNSC," he said in a statement.

"Up to now, the Security Council has taken no decision on ending cooperation with Iran in nuclear energy." Every country "has the right to decide with whom and how it should cooperate," Kamynin said, adding that the Bushehr project was "under the full control" of the UN nuclear watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency.

US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns said the US had called on countries to end all nuclear cooperation with Iran, including work on the Bushehr plant.

[familyop]

Go to PalestineFacts.org.

Scroll down the page to "Military Provocation By Arab Countries and Soviet Disinformation," then see the following text.

"At the same time, and unknown to the Israelis, the Soviet Union mounted a disinformation campaign pushing Egypt to join Syria against Israel. At that time, the Soviets were providing military and economic aid to both Syria and Egypt. On May 13, 1967 a Soviet parliamentary delegation visited Cairo and informed the Egyptian leaders that Israel had concentrated eleven to thirteen brigades along the Syrian border in preparation for an assault within a few days, with the intention of overthrowing the revolutionary Syrian Government. This was a complete fabrication designed by the Soviets to destabilize the Middle East. Similar false information may have been given to Egypt by the Soviets as early as May 2."

[prophetic]

so let me get this straight.

Bush & Putin are 'friends' as depicted by those photos at the Bush ranch right?

But with 'friends' like these who needs enemies in times like these?

[jerryem]

The U.S. asked Russia to end its cooperation with Iran???? Never get anything right, they should be helping them.But at the same time continually reminding the Iranian people that Russia helped Ukraine build Chernobyl

[MetalHeadConservative35]

im just curious, but isnt there a way to allow them to have a powerplant, and still keep the weapons option from happening ?

[ScaniaBoy]

See this link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398002/posts

A long read but very interesting story. It is possible that the Soviets had planned the Six Day War as a way to get a strong foothold in the Middle East.

[The KG9 Kid]

In the event that it becomes another Chernobyl, screw 'em.

I don't even like to think that we gave aid and comfort to these lunatics that haven't even got the capability to pull their own grandmothers out from under the ruins of a city made of dried mud after an earthquake strikes.

[stevem]

so let me get this straight...Bush & Putin are 'friends' as depicted by those photos at the Bush ranch right...But with 'friends' like these who needs enemies in times like these...

Well, I s'pect Iran has been heavily invested over the years in helping the Chechnyan separatists. When you talk about friends "like these" in the same thought as anything Russian, I think you are hitting on a death wish of boundless intensity.

[vertolet]

=im just curious, but isnt there a way to allow them to have a powerplant, and still keep the weapons option from happening?=

Yes, it is. Russia builds a ligth water reactor which is impossible to produce bomb grade uranium.

[familyop]

THE COLD WAR'S LONGEST COVER-UP: HOW AND WHY THE USSR INSTIGATED THE 1967 WAR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398002/posts

Thank you.

[familyop]

"im just curious, but isnt there a way to allow them to have a powerplant, and still keep the weapons option from happening?"

Yes. They can use oil.

[browardchad]

Russia builds a ligth water reactor which is impossible to produce bomb grade uranium.

In one of the most earthquake-prone countries on the planet. That makes sense -- why rely on all that oil, when you can endanger the populace?

[Herakles]

In that case, maybe we should go ahead and build an N-Plant for the Chechnyian rebels! What goes around comes around.

[mkjessup]

In the event that it becomes another Chernobyl, screw 'em.

And funny how nobody seems to ever talk about a potential Chernobyl 90 miles from the U.S., as Communist Cuba has a nuclear power facility with two Soviet-designed VVER-440 reactors (based on the Chernobyl design I believe) that is either already online or about to go live.

That not enough?

Imagine Castro getting the idea that as he leaves the world stage, he gives a deathbed order to provoke a meltdown of the reactors, so as to poison as much of the U.S. as possible?

If there was ever a reason for an airstrike on a nuclear facility, Castro is IT. So I say go for the daily double and have those B-2 bombers make a detour over El Jeffe on the way back from their bombing runs over Iran, saving a few bombs for the job.

[ARCADIA]

Well bells, we have been here before. Lets just inform the Russians that we will treat any nuclear attack launched by Iran as having originated in Moscow, and then launch a new program to add another 20,000 MREVs of our own targeted at both countries. $5 will get you $10 that Putin will soon develop another opinion.

[vertolet]

=$5 will get you $10 that Putin will soon develop another opinion.=

Accepted.

Russia and USA each already have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world 5 times in a row. So 20000 MREVs will change absolutely nothing.

[Don Joe]

So, as things come to a head, Russia casts its lot with Iran. If nothing else, they're true to form. Remember Stalin's pact with Hitler?

Looks like WWIII is going to be one helluva bitch.

Note to self: Put in really big garden this spring, buy plenty of chickens, and finish off inside-only chicken coop. And buy lots of warm clothes and blankets.

[johnny7]

Russian/Iranian alliance... -'The Ezekiel Option'

[ScaniaBoy]

Here is another article by Isabelle Ginor on the same topic. Appears that the Soviets intended to use a small force as a "tripwire". If Israel defended itself, then they would be in war with the Soviet Union, with all that would entail. And if the US would have sprung to the aid of Israel then we woould have had WW III.

As I pointed out in my commetn on the other thread, it shows how "adventurist" the Soviet Union was, and this made the Entente policy untenable.

[ScaniaBoy]

An here is the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,330406,00.html
How Six Day war almost led to Armageddon