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.

[Joe Boucher]

Russia is playing a dangerous game wanting iran to have nukes so close to moscow.
And what happens when Iran decides to help the rebel muslims within russia?

[ScaniaBoy]

If you are interested in the subject here are two more articles that are must reads:

US State Dept conference on the 6 Day War
http://www.israelforum.com/board/printthread.php3?threadid=4775

and

http://www.biu.ac.il/Besa/meria/journal/2000/issue4/jv4n4a5.html
The Russians Were Coming: The Soviet Military Threat in the 1967 Six-Day War

[pctech]

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

Bingo!

[johnny7]

Stalin played with Hitler... the Russians have never been averse to 'hangin with the devil.

[gafusa]

Ammo as well.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Russia helping Iran is to be expected. Not for one minuet do I believe that Iran has the ability to develope nucks without outside help.

I wouldn't trust Russia as far as I could throw the Krimlin.

[DustyMoment]

I would love to see this backfire big time inPutin's face - after Iran uses his N-plant to blow up Moscow. Perhaps then he'll understand what the phrase "terrorist nation" means.

For now, he's simply taking Ruissia back in time - back to those wonderful, nostalgic days of the USSR and the Cold War.

[Joe Boucher]

You got that correct johnny.
We'd all be speaking german if hitler hadn't stabbed his buddies the russians in the back.

[ARCADIA]

"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."

Russia opposes our star wars missile defense program, and would still have to match us missile for missile. The message is politrical rather then pratical. The question is: how many Moscow would like to be blown up over a power plant deal with Iran?

This move by Russia is not a return to the cold war; but, the sort of idiotic political brinkmanship that led to WWI. They would set up an opposing camp where the decision maker is none other then the lunatics in Iran.

[ScaniaBoy]

This move by Russia is not a return to the cold war; but, the sort of idiotic political brinkmanship that led to WWI. They would set up an opposing camp where the decision maker is none other then the lunatics in Iran.

If you read some of the articles i posted above you'll see that there were periods during the Cold War when the Russians did play with fire. The Cuba crisis was of course another such incident.

[familyop]

...very interested. Thanks for the links to history in your comments #20 and #22.

[PsyOp]

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?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but prevailing winds would blow most of a cuban meltdown over the atlantic to east africa.

BTW, this is the first I've heard that Castro has a reactor. Thanks for the heads up. If a meltdown happens it will be easy to tell real cuban cigars from fakes--they glow in the dark and can light themselves.

[mkjessup]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but prevailing winds would blow most of a cuban meltdown over the atlantic to east africa.

In the event of a meltdown, I would hate to be at the mercy of atmospheric currents.

[No.6]

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

This is the part where we ought to step back and say "OK, Pooty, you're part of Iran's plans, fine. Anything stupid Armeni-jihad does is now 100% your responsibility. If Iran, some time in the future, announces it has a nuclear weapon, or just goes ahead and uses one, we'll treat it as if Russia had launched a nuclear attack."

Good old cold-war proclamation.

I think at that point you'd see Russia exercise some better discretion. Right now, IMO, Russia's playing the same deal against us that we did with the old USSR; make the other guy spend money they can't afford. They've even advanced the practice, since they've got their proxies forcing us to spend money rather than trying to do it themselves.

[PsyOp]

I would hate to be at the mercy of atmospheric currents.

Yeah, you'd probably want to stay away from south Florida for a while. As long as it didn't happen during hurricane season, we'd be safe.

[Thunder90]

Russian/Chinese/iranian alliance = 'The Ezekiel Option'

[Thunder90]

Putin stirred up the trouble in Chechnya.

[Thunder90]

The Chinese were going to join in during the '67 war, but they would have gotten there too late to do anything.

[Thunder90]

Soprry, but Castro has a successor, Raul. And Raul has a successor.

[pctech]

This is the 3rd or 4th time someone has mentioned that book. I gotta get it.