Posted on 04/03/2007 9:07:58 AM PDT by jhpigott
Russia anxious about military action against Iran near its border
18:25 | 03/ 04/ 2007 http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070403/63027715.html
MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is concerned about a possible attack on Iran and insists that military action near its border is totally unacceptable, the first deputy foreign minister said Tuesday.
Russia, which is separated from Iran in the south by three tiny South Caucasus nations and shares a sea border with the Islamic Republic, has been actively promoting a diplomatic solution to the Iranian issue.
"Any military action near our border is totally unacceptable," Andrei Denisov said. "We are strongly against it and we are doing our best to prevent it from happening."
Media reports in late March said Washington was preparing to strike at Iran in early April but Denisov denied the information.
"Our partners say movement of military structures in the Persian Gulf is part of a planned rotation," the diplomat said.
Yury Baluyevsky, the head of the Russian General Staff, warned Washington earlier Tuesday that it should think twice before launching a military campaign against Tehran as it would have global implications.
"Our strategic partners have already got bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq," he said.
The U.S. Administration sees Iran as a "rogue state" and is determined to stop the Islamic Republic, diplomatically or otherwise, from obtaining nuclear weapons. Washington now plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe allegedly to protect itself from potential missile strikes from Iran or North Korea.
The UN Security Council passed a new resolution on Iran March 24 toughening economic sanctions against the country suspected of a covert nuclear program. Russia, which is building a $1-billion nuclear power plant in Iran, has resisted any strict sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Really what solution have they proposed? It seems to me that they just get in the way.
Screw Russia. They are not freinds of the free world. Russia will always be an obstruction to freedom.
Unfortunately, Russia can be a pretty big “obstruction” and “get in the way”, with its arsenal of ICBMs and SSBNs, we can’t just ignore them
Eventually we'll have to add Packistan as well as Iran to that list.
Would it be OK with the Russians if the US thought three times about attacking Iran? How about four times? Five?
that’s what i’m afraid of
Ok, during an air strike on Iran, let several of our bombers approach toward the Russian boundaries of Caspian Sea (I hope they will see them on the radar) just to harass them for what they have done to counter our efforts to apply sanctions on Iran. They should get our message.
they SHOULD get the message, but what if they don’t and we shoot down one of their planes or vice versa in an “accidental exchange of fire”. You just think we have problems now . . .
“Sword Point”, by Harold Coyle.
great book
I’m not a big fan of some of his more recent works though
Dito.
Maybe Russia should have worried about selling nuclear weapons technology to a buncha apocalyptic nutjobs.
Too bad, so sad.
Russia won’t nuke us. They like being alive too much.
Oh, I’m pretty sure they have no intention of nuking us. My point is if we are engaged in hostilities on their southern border, a military incident bwtn us and Russia could spiral out of control. I don’t think it would spirial that far out of control, but this scenario harks back to old Cold War scenarios.
Them and what army? :p
Russia still believes that they possess most/all of their neighbors, I see.
i guess when you lose an empire overnight reality takes a while to set in.
But from the Russian POV, the U.S. has been very active, militarily speaking, in the region since 2001. A conflict real close to their southern border, understandably, makes them nervous
Then why have they done as much as possible to aggravate the situation?
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