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2005-09-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russian Foreign Minister "Pissed Off" With Iranian Nuke Transfer

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Posted by Captain America 2005-09-19 20:11|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Your customer is now your competition?

Posted by john">john 2005-09-19 20:59|| 2005-09-19 20:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia seed it's products as export items and doesn't want Iran competing for customers along with it duties under the NPT to control exports of such technology.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-19 21:01|| 2005-09-19 21:01|| Front Page Top

#3 One good thing about having something built by Russians. Guaranteed that at some point in the future, all some other Russian has to do is push a red button on a small transmitter and the whole building will fall down.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-19 21:59|| 2005-09-19 21:59|| Front Page Top

#4 It would be pretty funny if the Iranians hand over a working bomb to the Chechens, who then detonate it in Red Square. Actually, not so funny, since the Russians might automatically suspect American perfidy, and launch all their nukes.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-19 22:37|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-19 22:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Y'all keep referring to "the Russians," as if there is such a thing as a unitary center of power in Russia that is under Putin's control. Not so. The Russian government doesn't really govern. Russian foreign policy is the sum of the behavior of multiple actors, private and public (and public officials acting in a private capacity), and is without coherence, logic or strategic direction. A northern version of Nigeria + the Pakistani ISI.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-09-19 22:48|| 2005-09-19 22:48|| Front Page Top

#6 It's what we used to call "feudal" in the old days, Lex.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-09-19 23:27|| 2005-09-19 23:27|| Front Page Top

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