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October 4, 2009
TimesOnline: 'Israel names Russians helping Iran build nuclear bomb'
Topics: Political News and commentariesAccording to a source close to the Russian defense minister, the reason behind Netanyahu's visit to Moscow was to deliver a list and concrete evidence showing that Russians are helping the Iranians to develop a bomb:
[...] Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has handed the Kremlin a list of Russian scientists believed by the Israelis to be helping Iran to develop a nuclear warhead. He is said to have delivered the list during a mysterious visit to Moscow.So much for Barack Obama's judgement behind his Iran policy of wait and talk, and his "pushing the reset button" with Russia. He apparently doesn't really care if Iran has a nuclear bomb and, as Anne Bayefsky has suggested, has already decided to let Iran acquire nuclear arms.Netanyahu flew to the Russian capital with Uzi Arad, his national security adviser, last month in a private jet.
His office claimed he was in Israel, visiting a secret military establishment at the time. It later emerged that he was holding talks with Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, and President Dmitry Medvedev.
"We have heard that Netanyahu came with a list and concrete evidence showing that Russians are helping the Iranians to develop a bomb," said a source close to the Russian defence minister last week.
[...] Israeli sources said it was a short, tense meeting at which Netanyahu named the Russian experts said to be assisting Iran in its nuclear programme.
In western capitals the latest claims were treated with caution. American and British officials argued that the involvement of freelance Russian scientists belonged to the past.
American officials said concern about Russian experts acting without official approval, had been raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a report more than a year ago.
"There has been Russian help. It is not the government, it is individuals, at least one helping Iran on weaponisation activities and it is worrisome," said David Albright, a former weapons inspector who is president of the Institute for Science and International Security.
However, Israeli officials insist that any Russian scientists working in Iran could do so only with official approval.
Robert Einhorn, the special adviser for non-proliferation and arms control to Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is understood to believe that Russian companies have also supplied material that has been used by Iran in the production of ballistic missiles.
Posted by Richard at October 4, 2009 11:39 AM
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