Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks in the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow. Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, Medvedev said on Monday in the clearest indication yet of Russian alarm over Tehran's atomic drive. (AFP/Pool/Sergey Ponomarev)
Yo, Israel.
Time to pooh or get off the pot.
Aan Iranian technician working at the control room of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities. Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, President Dmitry Medvedev said in the clearest indication yet of Russian alarm over Tehran's atomic drive. (AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)
A map showing known nuclear sites in Iran according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, President Dmitry Medvedev said in the clearest indication yet of Russian alarm over Tehran's atomic drive. (AFP/Graphic)
Russia perplexes me. After all, they are a lot closer to Iran than we are and if there is one thing that the last 30 years has proved conclusively it’s that “making nice” to Muslims does not make you their friends.
Hell, Chechnya and the “black widows” should have made that quite clear. Iran and the “stans” are an Islamic dagger pointed right at Russia’s underbelly. Do they really want to give (or let those savages build) a nuclear-tipped sword?
Medvedev knows that Russia could easily glass Iran over, but he also knows their apocalypse-minded mullahs don’t give a damn about that. In the meantime, Iran could nuke anybody that the Taliban has a fit of pique with. That includes, historically, the Russians.
Iran has a strategy involving endless negotiation, press conferences and speeches at the UN, which are the same as Obama’s strategy. The result of both strategies will be that Iran ends up with atomic weapons.
Huh? Russia is “disturbed” at the fact that Iran will be getting nuclear weapons?
Russia has been one of the top enablers of the Iranian nuclear programs.
Mark
“Now what we need is patience and as quickly as possible to renew dialogue with Tehran,” Medvedev said.
“This is what we see as the main aim of the UN Security Council resolution. And if diplomacy loses this chance then this will be a collective failure of all the international community,” he said.
Russia has no interest in stopping Iran. There is a 99.9% chance any Iranian nuke will be used against the West and not the former USSR.
Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday in the clearest indication yet of Russian alarm over Tehran's atomic drive... Russia, traditionally a diplomatic and economic ally of the Islamic republic, in the past took a milder line against Tehran than Western powers but recently noticeably hardened its position... Medvedev said that Iran "is far from behaving in the best way"... Medvedev repeated his belief that sanctions often do not produce results, but he added that in Iran's case they could stimulate talks.
Why do I get the feeling that Russia wanted to profit as much as possible from Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but never seriously considered that the US and Israel would let them get this far.