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Ruskies to Iran: Stop Enriching Uranium
2007-03-20

(NYT) PARIS, Mar. 18 — Russia has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran’s nearly completed Bushehr power plant unless Iran suspends its uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council, European, American and Iranian officials said.

The ultimatum was delivered in Moscow last week by Igor Ivanov, RussiaÂ’s Security Council Secretary, to Ali Hosseini Tash, IranÂ’s deputy chief nuclear negotiator, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a confidential diplomatic exchange between two governments was involved.
Posted by:garbagecowboy

#8  "Stop enriching uranium and pay us, dammit."
Posted by: SteveS   2007-03-20 18:29  

#7  Ruskies to Iran: Stop Enriching Uranium

This is like a bunch of crooked cops arresting their favorite call girls. Only the fools are being fooled. Putin wants his payoff and global security can go whistle.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-03-20 16:57  

#6  JE3087 has it. The Russians now realize the Americans won't attack the Iranians and their support for the Iranian nuclear and missile programs is going to blow up in their faces. They will have a hard time intimidating the mullahs to stop islamist support when Volgograd is 5 minutes from destruction and Moscow 10 minutes away.
Posted by: ed   2007-03-20 14:13  

#5  Iran is the world largest sponser of terrorism and Russia is the worlds largest supplier of weapons.
Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087   2007-03-20 12:00  

#4  and from our European ALLIES, thank you very much

ha ha! LH, what a kidder!
Posted by: Frank G   2007-03-20 11:40  

#3  dunno. It could be Russians are motivated by the money, and are trying to get some political brownie points with us. Or it could be that they are motivated by carrots and sticks from us (and from our European ALLIES, thank you very much) and are using the money as cover with the Iranians.

If the former, is this really the first time the Iranians are unable to pay? What does that say about how hard even the very limited sanctions are hurting them?
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-03-20 11:10  

#2  Foreign policy shift, my ass..

Recently, however, Moscow and Tehran have been engaged in a public argument about whether Iran has paid its bills, in a dispute that may explain RussiaÂ’s apparent shift.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-03-20 09:15  

#1  What does this have to do with the 'War on Terrorism'?

Iraq and now Iran are foreign policies which start as something separate from 'terrorism'
Posted by: Bruce from MS   2007-03-20 08:58  

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