Russia Warns to Take Tough Action against Military Strike on Iran

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    TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow warned the western powers to avoid a military threat against Iran, cautioning that Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its own security.


    The escalating conflict around Iran should be contained by common effort, otherwise the promising Arab Spring will grow into a "scorching Arab Summer," Moscow's departing Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin warned on Friday.

    "Iran is our close neighbor, just south of the Caucasus. Should anything happen to Iran, should Iran get drawn into any political or military hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security," Rogozin, who is now Russia's deputy prime minister, said two days after the killing of a nuclear scientist in Tehran by a hitman on a motorcycle.

    "We are definitely interested in the non-proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction," Rogozin said on Friday. "But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have what it needs to feel comfortable, including Iran."

    Dmitry Rogozin, who served as Russia's special envoy to NATO in 2008-2011, was appointed deputy prime minister by Vladimir Putin in December. On Friday he was bidding farewell to his NATO colleagues in the alliance's headquarters in Brussels.

    Rogozin, often described as an anti-Western hawk will oversee Russia's defense sector when he returns to Moscow.

    The remarks came as Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev, who is close to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said Israel was pushing the United States towards war with Iran.
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    If Russia is to interested in protecting Iran then it should step up the steps to stop nuclear programs of Iran . If Iran has a peaceful and transparent nuclear program no one else will have any issue . First sending warships in Syria and now threatening against Intervention in Iran. Looks like Bear found its old voice.
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    Why should iran be deprived of nuclear weapon in its national interest when more "rogue" nations already have it? Is Iran less equal than others and who is US to police the whole world when it itself has the largest stock WMDs.?
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    Iran and US disagreements is form 1979 and what we see today is just a continuation of the same and iran and Russian friendship is form the cold war era days.
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    Russia says strike on Iran would be catastrophe--



    MOSCOW:
    Russia on Wednesday warned that a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" with the severest consequences which risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and
    Shiite Muslims .

    "As for the chances of this catastrophe happening, you would have to ask those constantly mentioning it as an option that remains on the table," foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said when asked on the chances of military action.

    Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak earlier said in Jerusalem on Wednesday that his country was not even close to deciding to attack Iran and believed that a military option remained "very far away".

    Lavrov warned of the "severest" consequences of an attack that he warned would spark a regional refugee crisis and incite inter-communal tensions in the region.

    "I have no doubt in the fact that it only add fuel to the fire of the still-simmering Sunni-Shiite conflict. And I do not know where the subsequent chain reaction will end.

    He added that punitive sanctions aimed at winning more transparency from Iran had "exhausted" themselves and only hurt the chances of peace.

    "Additional unilateral sanctions against Iran have nothing to do with a desire to ensure the regime's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation," Lavrov told reporters at an annual briefing outlining Russia's foreign policy views.

    "It is seriously aimed at suffocating the Iranian economy and the well-being of its people, probably in the hope of inciting discontent."

    His comments came as EU diplomats closed in on a July date for a full oil embargo that would suit nations such as Italy with a strong reliance on Iranian supplies.

    Lavrov said Russia had evidence that Iran was ready to cooperate more closely with inspectors from the United Nations IAEA nuclear watchdog and was preparing for "serious talks" with the West.

    He also hinted that Europe and the United States were imposing the measures with the specific purpose of torpedoing new rounds of talks.

    "Iran is now waiting for an (IAEA) delegation so that it can discuss serious issues. So the sanctions that can now be adopted by the European Union can hardly improve the atmosphere or make the talks productive," said Lavrov.

    "All possible sanctions that could impact Iran's behaviour in the nuclear sphere or its cooperation with the IAEA have been exhausted," said Lavrov.

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...would-be-catastrophe/articleshow/11539555.cms
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