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RUSSIA IN A HURRY TO SELL WEAPONS TO IRAN -- PAPER |
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/09/26/kommersantsays.shtml
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Russia in a Hurry to Sell Weapons to Iran - Paper
Created: 26.09.2005 13:53 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:53 MSK
Russia is intensifying efforts to sell weapons to Iran while such sales
remain legal amid mounting pressure on the Islamic state over its
controversial nuclear program, the daily Kommersant said on Monday.
Moscow "has stepped up military-technological cooperation with
Tehran," the business daily said, citing an unidentified source.
It said top officials within Russia's military-industrial complex
decided to concentrate on arms sales to Tehran for two reasons.
"Firstly, as many weapons as possible must be sold to Iran before an
international embargo against this country comes into force."
Secondly, should the United States decide to go to war in Iran, Russia
wants Iran to be well-armed to ensure that U.S. forces become at least
as bogged down there as they already are in Iraq, the daily said.
"In either case, such a policy carries a high risk of creating a
major international scandal, at the very least," the newspaper
commented.
The report came two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) formally found Iran in violation of its obligations under the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a decision the United States
hailed as a "significant step forward" in its efforts to curb
Iran's nuclear plans, AFP added.
"The United States no longer even hides the fact that, in parallel
with diplomacy at the IAEA, it is making preparations to resolve the
conflict by force," Kommersant said.
The U.S. ambassador to the ex-Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which
borders Iran, told AFP in a recent interview that Washington is
encouraging - and helping fund - a build-up in the capacities of
naval forces for Azerbaijan and another former Soviet republic,
Kazakhstan.
Both border the oil-rich Caspian Sea, as does Iran. In its assertion
that Washington is already making preparations for military action in
the region, Kommersant cited the U.S.-funded construction of two radar
stations in Azerbaijan.
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| Title: Re: RUSSIA IN A HURRY TO SELL WEAPONS TO IRAN -- PAPER |
07 Oct 2005 03:59:04 PM |
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Considering a yardstick in the West's GDP is about 30% arms sales and
we are not really talking pistols and rifles here, but somewhat
advanced equipment, Iran and Pakistan and of course others like S
America et al, have a quite advanced weapons programs of their own, so
the equipment then has to be electronic counter measures like GPS
scramblers and missiles of the various types.
Maybe even aircraft.
So it then becomes who makes the sales, and Russia being close by,
still given Iran's history of smuggling sanctions are not going to be
as effective as they were/are in Iraq.
It is what you have got, and how you use it.
LB
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