Russia helps Iran with nuclear reactor

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=308928

Russia and Iran have resolved their differences over the construction of a nuclear reactor.

Russian involvement in the construction of the reactor in the Iranian city of Bushehr, began in the 1970's after the Iranian revolution.
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this will be watched to see if Russia makes nuclear fuel delivery

[comradebillyboy]

1. Putin will help Iran

just to poke Bush and the US in the eye. I wonder if Turkey will go nuclear next if they are excluded from the EU. They are really pissed at the French and are quite irked with Bush. I think with a little help from their Israeli allies they just may. Putin would also help the Turks to pry them away from NATO and their alliance with the US. Turkey will likely maintain its alliance with Israel, since they really don't much like Arabs.

The EU and US are alienating the west's most important strategic ally in the Muslim world. The only secular and democratic nation with a large Muslim majority. Take a look at a map a see where Turkey sits. Because the US refuses to take action against anti-Turkish Kurdish terrorists who take refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Turks are now cooperating with the Iranians and the Syrians who also have problems with Iraq based Kurdish terrorists likely financed and armed by the US government.

It is not in our national interest to push the Turks into strategic cooperation with either Russia or Iran, be Bush seems determined to do it.

[nealmhughes]

2. Anyone playing a game of stratego knows that Turkey is a most envious country to court.

I had quite a few Turkish friends when I was an undergrad. They love to get MBAs at the University of North Alabama for some reason (actually it is a good liberal arts school and MBA program). I saw nothing but basically kids who could have been Greek or Italian or Spanish by sight or by culture, save for their nominal Muslim identity -- I reckon they need rites of passage still in Stambul and Ankara. Western Europe owes the Turkish Republic a gigantic debt of gratitude for having remained neutral in the Second World War. That Turkish army is not something Mr. Churchill would have wanted Turkey added to the Axis' arsenal.