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Putin Sides With Iran On Nuke Development
Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader, looks to be siding quite heavily with Iran where it comes to developing nuclear technology, and warning the U.S. in regards to staging any military action against Iran as a response to its nuclear development programs.
Putin is dead-set on delivering on Russia's commitment to Iran in building a nuclear reactor and getting it online. He has stated that no nation in the Caspian Sea region should allow its territory to be used in an attack on another Caspian nation. This is in regards to reports that the U.S. may use Azerbaijan, a former Soviet satellite state, as a staging ground for an attack on Iran. Currently, the U.S. does not have such plans (but I hope they have something in development).
Also addressed is a demand that any oil pipeline project that goes through any Caspian Sea nation must be backed by all five nations in the region. With Iran and Russia, who are obviously in league with each other, as two of those nations, it is clearly an attempt to block any pipelines that would help deliver oil to Western countries (like the U.S.). Especially since currently proposed pipeline projects would bypass Russia.
The question is, how will Putin enforce this on the other nations that comprise the Caspian Sea region? With tanks and hobnailed boots like they used throughout Eastern Europe during the heydays of the Soviet Union? Are the nations of the Caspian Sea region sovereign nations able to decide for themselves who they will ally with and whether or not they will let foreign troops into their country to deal with a serious nuclear threat posed by a neighboring nation that is controlled by a totalitarian theocracy?
We already know that Iran will cooperate fully with Putin in regards to these two issues, as they are the potential target of any military forces that might be staged in that region. They would also not be part of any proposed pipeline as long as they have a fascist theocracy in place.
Iran's nuclear program is clearly a threat to Western civilaizatioin as even if they don't use the tech directly for the development of nuclear bombs, they will, without any doubt, be a provider of nuclear materials to Islamic terrorist groups and assist them in developing delivery systems (which ain't that hard to do). Iran has been regularly caught supplying terrorist groups and sectarian death squads in Iraq. Can we truly believe that they wouldn't start providing high-quality uranium or plutonium to these same types of people?
From BreitBart:
Putin has warned the U.S. and other nations against trying to coerce Iran into reining in its nuclear program and insists peaceful dialogue is the only way to deal with Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment.
Like that really worked with North Korea, who regularly lied through their teeth about their actual plans for nuclear tech that we, the American taxpayer, were forced to pay for courtesy of Jimmy Carter and the Clinton Administration (and that's something to keep in mind with Hillary in the presidential race for 2008).
We also tried for years to deal with Saddam Hussein through the U.N. and its Security Council and let him continue to take potshots at U.S. aircraft in the region, a direct violation, by Hussein, of the cease-fire agreement.
Iran's rejection of the council's demand and its previous clandestine atomic work has fed suspicions in the U.S. and other countries that Tehran is working to enrich uranium to a purity usable in nuclear weapons. Iran insists it is only wants lesser-enriched uranium to fuel nuclear reactors that would generate electricity.
A trick Iran learned from North Korea.
Putin summed things up with intentions of negotiating on behalf of the United States (in regards to being on the U.N. Security Council). Let's hope someone has the smarts to tell him "no thanks." Putin has a vested interest in Iran's nuclear program as Russia is building the reactor. Can we say conflict of interest?
More and more, Putin is resembling many of the dictators of the pre-WW2 era. And that is something that we should also be concerned about.
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