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February 25, 2006
Russia: Moscow Wants to Finish Iran Nuclear Plant Quickly
I'll say this about the Russians: whenever they embark in a short-sighted, suicidal policy, they pursue it with uncommon zeal: Russia wants to complete Iran nuclear plant swiftly
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia wants to complete building of a nuclear power station in Iran as soon as possible, the country's top nuclear official said on Saturday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom, said during a visit to Tehran that the civilian nuclear plant at Bushehr in Iran would be completed as fast as possible. Russia is helping to build the plant.
"We don't see any political obstacles to completing Bushehr and we are interested in it (the station) being launched in the swiftest possible period," Kiriyenko said, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.[...]
Meanwhile, in Iran: Iran readies to fend off "enemy assaults" on capital
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 - Radical Islamist militiamen affiliated to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps staged military exercises in the western suburbs of Tehran on Friday to defend the Iranian capital against "enemy assaults", a government-run news agency reported.Some 2,500 members of the paramilitary Bassij took part in Friday morning's military drills in Qods (Jerusalem) Garrison in Tehran's Garm-Darreh district.
"In the military exercises, the Bassij forces destroyed the positions of enemy forces who had been ferried to Tehran by helicopters and mopped up the drop zone", Isca-News reported.
"The Bassij forces accomplished more than 90 percent of their mission", the report added.[...]
Had there been real 'enemy forces' of the kind that are 'dropped by Helicopter' the only way for the poorly-trained, overzealous Bassij to accomplish more thant 90 percent of its objectives would be to declare a mass-suicide mission. But that's another story.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at February 25, 2006 5:22 PM
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Russia is just cashing in before the inevitable US/Israeli assault. They did exactly the same thing before the invasion of Iraq. They sold Saddam Hussain loads of high tech weapons and billed him for military consultation that was worthless in the end. I also doubt Russian advisors on the ground in Iran are loyal to the Islamic regime. They are probably selling intelligence back to the Americans. The men in Moscow are smarter than the men in Tehran.
Posted by: 1630r ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 26, 2006 8:30 AM
I'm afraid I disagree with 1630r.
This is a serious situation.J O S H U A P U N D I T: The new Russia/Iran nukes deal..and what's behind it
Russia has effectively prevented any united Western action on Teheran's nukes while `diplomacy is given a chance to work'.
This is our generations equivalent of the Comintern Pact.
Posted by: Freedom Fighter at February 26, 2006 9:13 PM
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