Though he actually has very little direct influence over foreign policy, Israeli President Shimon Peres has often been at the forefront of Israel’s long standing threats to launch a military attack against Iran. Peres has repeatedly compared his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler, and has called Iran a threat to the entire world that “can be wiped off the map.”
But in an interview broadcast earlier today on CNN’s GPS program, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that he had spoken to Peres last month and the Israeli promised that his nation would not attack Iran.
Medvedev, who cautioned that an attack on Iran would be “the worst thing that can be imagined,” said Peres had assured him Israel is “a peaceful country” that would never launch an attack on Iran. Medvedev said he trusted the comments.
The Russian president insisted, however, that his nation had every right to sell Iran the S-300 air defense system, and advanced defensive missile system Iran has long sought as a hedge against Israeli attack and which Israel has vehemently opposed being delivered to them.
Medvedev also cleared up the question of Netanyahu’s secret visit earlier in the month, insisting that despite denials from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ambiguous statements from Israeli officials that the Israeli prime minister indeed made a secret visit to the nation.
The last sentence seems to have been garbled.
So, out of one side of their mouth, they say they won't attack Iran, and out of the other side of their mouth, they're demanding that Russia not deliver to Iran the S-300 SAMs, (purely defensive systems) that Iran supposedly already bought?
I wonder, could they be lying, or are they just lying?
There is no shared border between Russia and Iran.
Iran does share borders with former Soviet republics Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan.
Yes Peres is lying. Israel a peaceful country? Nelson is exactly right, the Israelies don't want Iran to have defensive missles so they would not be able to protect themselves against an Israeli attack, which Israel constantly threatens. Only Israel , of course, has the right to nucleat weapons in the middle east. They have flat out refused a nuclear free zone for that region and have refused to sign the non proliferation treaty, which Iran has done. It is estimated that Israel hasabout 200 nuclear weapons, probably aimed at Iran. Israel, clearly, is the rogue state of the region and definitely not interested in peace with its neighbors.