Posted on 03/18/2010 1:30:37 PM PDT by Tigen
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Putin on Friday in a last-minute addition to her visit to Moscow, a US official told reporters.
Russia will start up the nuclear reactor it is building at Iran's Bushehr atomic power plant in mid-2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
"We continue work on developing atomic energy capacity both at home and abroad," Putin said at a meeting on nuclear energy in the southern Russian city of Volgodonsk.
"The start-up of the first reactor of the Bushehr atomic power station is planned for this summer," Putin said.
Russia agreed to build the 1,000 megawatt reactor at Bushehr 15 years ago, but delays have haunted the $1 billion project and diplomats say Moscow has used it as a lever in relations with Tehran.
The planned atomic power station - Iran's first - was once a source of disagreement between Russia and the West, which suspected the Islamic build nuclear weapons.
But in recent years, the United States has dropped its opposition and says the plant removes any need for Iran to have its own uranium enrichment program.
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So we are looking at a warm spring in the Middle East? April showers bring May bombing raids?
Obama postponed his trip.
Diego Garcia receiving bunker-buster bombs.
Guess they want to take it out before the Russkies starat it up.
Israel must — must — act before the reactor is started. If nothing else, it’s relevance is symbolic, even if it’s unnecessary to the production of bombs.
Israeli intel is quite good. Probably better than our own in that theatre.
Looks like this will be The Summer Of The Jackpot in the Middle East. The row of dominoes is long.
Russia agreed to build the 1,000 megawatt reactor at Bushehr 15 years ago, but delays have haunted the $1 billion project and diplomats say Moscow has used it as a lever in relations with Tehran.This plant has nothing to do with all those centrifuges doing enrichment. Okay, yes, it has a little to do with them. But just in case...
Those were the bombs that were suppose to go to Israel. Obama's going to sit on his hands...
He is a rotten Bastard.
I hope Jewish Americans remember this bastard.
And I hope the rest of us do too.
He’s a rotten bastard, a cancer in the heart of America, eating it out from within as it is assailed from without.
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