Russia sabotaged Iran nuclear programme: report

[bananas]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Russia-sabotaged-Iran-nuclear-programme-report/Article1-699403.aspx

Russia sabotaged Iran nuclear programme: report
Agence France-Presse
Jerusalem, May 19, 2011

Then Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the sabotage of Iran's nuclear programme in 2006, according to WikiLeaks documents published by Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot on Thursday. The leaked documents, which were not immediately available on either the Yediot or Wikileaks websites, purportedly detail talks between the head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission and then-US ambassador to Israel Richard Jones.

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"Frank said that Kiriyenko had told him that he intended to delay the process of sending the nuclear rods to the reactor in Bushehr for an extended period of time and that he had no intention of supplying the reactor with 'fresh fuel' at the current stage," Yediot reported.

Kiriyenko told the Israelis "the Russians intended to explain the deliberate delay by means of 'technical problems,'" adding that "Putin had personally ordered that deliberate delay in delivery," the newspaper said.

Frank also said the Russians had told him "they had made changes to the hardware that they were supposed to send to the Bushehr reactor so as to slow down the Iranian nuclear program even further."

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So maybe it was the Russians who planted stuxnet ... the mystery deepens ...

[apnu]

1. Perhaps... But why?

What does Russia gain by it? I thought they got along with Iran.

[leveymg]

2. Ok, so what changed between 2006 and 2011, when the reactor started up?

Hmmm?

[bananas]

3. Lot's of things - what are you referring to?

First thing that comes to mind is we no longer have Bush/Cheney threatening to drop nuclear bunker busters on them.

[leveymg]

4. The Russians indeed dragged out the Bushehr project for many years.

But, in the last couple years of the Bush Administration and after 2008, the plant was completed and fuel materials were delivered. I wonder what changed?

[cliss]

5. Why? I think it's pretty clear ~

Countries have loyalty to absolutely No One. No person, no leader, no neighbor even. It's all about Looking out for # 1.

I used to think the leaders at least stuck up for their people - I don't believe that any more.

So - why would Putin deliberately sabotage Iran, why I always thought they looked out for each other?
Answer = probably some tit-for-tat shady backroom deal with the US. What else?:smoke: