Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced today that they are in new talks with Iran on construction of additional nuclear power plants in the nation, and that they may still deliver the S-300 Missile Defense System to Iran, though no date was given for this delivery.
The comments came on the heels of a State Department statement praising Russia for not delivering the S-300 yet, though Russia insists they are not obliged under the sanctions to avoid doing so.
The S-300 systems are purely defensive in nature, but would make a prospective Israeli attack against Iran considerably more difficult. Israel has repeatedly pressured Russia not to deliver the system to Iran.
The Iran sanctions banned certain missile sales to Iran, but it appears to have been limited to mobile offensive missiles. The State Department urged Russia to exercise “restraint” in continuing to delay the delivery.
Ok, I'm sorry, but this is stupid. Do you actually not get it that Russia has delayed the Bushere plant again and again and again, and that it is precisely this that has stuck Iran with a stockpile of enriched uranium, and that it is precisly this stockpile that has been cited again and again and again as the primary public reason to suspect Iran of nefarious designs? Russia is playing a very brutal and cynical game with Iran, stringing Iran along with promises that are never fulfilled, while essentially CREATING the reason which Israel and the US manipulate as a reason for sanctions,and then coming back and throwing up their hands in the air, as they vote for sanctions, saying 'gee whiz, we can't help it, it's all because of the US and besides, Iran isn't being responsible'.
No. Russia will not complete Bushere in August, nor will they deliver the s-300. They are toying with Iran and Iran needs to wise up.
russia is cynically using iran as a pawn in it's geopolitical tiffs with the U.S. You can be sure that every time they agree to go along with another round of sanctions there is some kind of payoff involved. what precisely? who knows. I'm sure our fearless leaders would mortgage the whole country if it would buy Russia/China approval in the UN against Iran and allow them to make a positive report back to AIPAC.
is this the liberals fault too eppie.??
the iranians are stupid how in the world can you trust trust the Russians.Wake up Iran.
Not only they are stupid but they also are a dishonest politician waiting for the right moment to sticked to Iran.., US and EU for their own benefits.., The Russian can not be trusted nor the US for that matter and EU or China just forget about it.., Iran should stay with its contact with Turkey and Brazil and let these dishonest and opportunistic politics of the west and Russia or china to have their own war with each other.
You are right !! The Russians of post communist regime have shown a total opportunist, disloyal and perhaps IMMORAL behavior on their international commitments and this is only one more example . Do you remember their betrayal to Sadam Hussein during the American invasion ??
Russia is making same mistake that Molotov made by signing pact with Nazis in 1939, West will continue its proxy-wars against Russia until they feel Russia has been softened up for final assault and conquest. Both sides will pay a hellish price and Zionist merchants of death will get richer.
American,s should know that Iranians are nationalist and very active before they will sink in thze see Americans will sink too. I hope that through these sanction america has created further hatred against them. At present Muslims have only one weapon to prey and curse several times a day around the wolrd and wish and hope one day natural desastors will ruin america. If they continue to massacre Muslims around the world
Where is the OIL control in all of this? I still don’t know how oil is linked in here. May be the bigger picture in all this is economic in nature anyway?!
Iggy, i read a long time back where the US needs Iran to run a big oil pipe line threw it to steel oil from the North.
There is more to this then meets the eye. Iraq adventure of Bush Sr., was an opening salvo in the post Cold War, with US being triumphant. Russia was bankrupt, and many of its politicians ready to sell the country for peanuts. Bush Sr. was announcing the "new world order". Fast forward through other excellent adventures, Balkans, Afghanistan, invasion of Iraq — and the world was in the same mood. Times changed, Russia recovered, and China is a juggernaut. Brazil and Turkey have roaring economies. We are entering another phase, a phase were Russia and China can afford to be the negotiators, and not challengers at all the times. The new era has brought in new heavyweight challengers. The sanctions will bring about the end of the hundred of millions investment in Iranian opposition, as well as a new clarity for China and Russia to pursue IAEA path. However, until Arab countries do not come on board and stop declaring Iran a "threat", not much can be done. Brining in Israel into the discussion about Iran is a groundshifing move. Russia has finally learned the Chinese art of patience.
I think it is a safe bet Russia will never deliver the S-300’s. Iran needs to move on and perhaps build their own s-300.
Russia is playing a difficult hand with a some skill, vis their aid to Iran. They have a domestic terrorist cancer that makes the IRA, supposed "Al Qada", ETA and the rest look like pikers. A cancer that is being actively re-innoculated from within Langley and London, if it didn't indeed have been started by them. See Justin's "Russia's Metro Bombings" in March. Russia has been reminded daily by Netanyuhu, et al, that another Beslan can be arranged within weeks if not days, if Russia continues to displease the Tel-Aviv Washington axis. Consequently delivery of the "Igla", S300, "Klub" can't just occur without Russia holding out additional believable reciprocal threats of its own. Unfortunately, it's also true that Russia's current lust for Beverly Hills type wealth has caused loss of its balls, to some degree
Brezhnev and his 'new class" of morons destroyed the Soviet Union, just as the Finace Capitalists behind Clinton, Bush, and Obama have destroyed the US.
Under Khrushchev the Soviets had one of the highest growth rates in the world.
Brezhnev also ordered the invasion of Afghanistan, which was the proximate cause of the collapse.
In fact the Soviet Union was "bankrupt" only in terms of foreign currency and the Brezhnev idiots could not figure that one out.
They also neglected agriculture–which is a difficult problem in Russia–and had earlier begun to buy wheat from abroad rather than solving that problem on their own.
The Chinese Communists are much sharper when it comes to the way of the Finance Capitalists.
They now have the US by the balls.
Besides the idiocy of a large-scale war, the Russians were also subsidizing the East European countries.
The sharpest knife in the draw economically was Tito, which is, of course, exactly why the Capitalists had to target Yugoslavia.
corr "drawer"
I am an American citizen living in America, and I hope that Russia delivers those S-300 systems to Iran as soon as possible, perhaps when in place, they will serve as a deterrent to the bullies on the block (US, Israel) that Iran will not just roll over.
The US has been nothing other than the best example of government hypocrisy and corruption that has been available to mankind for the past 500 years.
If the US had to completely fail, fall apart in ruins, just so the rest of the world could live in peace, I would be in favor of it. We have to stop telling other nations to live peacefully, while at the same time we are engaging in the indiscriminate bombing and killing of men, women and children just trying to live their lives, but were unfortunately not born in the US or Israel.
God damn the US, we deserve nothing less.
Here it says that they have frozen the plan to sell Iran the S-300 system.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/rus…