Castellano

"Why do anything with Iran anyways?... A ridiculous undertaking since even if Iran does come up with a bomb it is kind of impossible to fit a 1st generation device (like the one N Korea has) on a missile, it has to be dropped from a bomber."

imishin


Or go off inside an innocent looking container as it arrives Rotterdam Harbor, with catastrophic harm.

Would the Iranian regime do something like that?

Given the right circumstances, I really wouldn't want to find out. And also, I don't want to know how the Iranian regime protests would sound in the middle of another cartoon row, given the knowledge that Iran is possesion of nukes. But pretty menacing I'm sure. Pretty menacing for our entire civilization, which certainly includes Russia.

Russia's position in this matter doesn't make any sense. Are you telling me seriously that it serves Russia's national interest to help Iran buy time at the UN and elsewhere?

The russian foreign nomenklatura must be quite sure this won't ever turn against them, right?

It is really quite puzzling to think why the hell are they doing this. Even considering Putin et al. outlook, the pleasure of watching the americans, israelis and west europeans running into trouble does not compensate the pain derived from the risks associated.

Perhaps there a is complex power game that I'm missing, but I doubt it.

It really demands an explanation.

Having said that, Russia's offer to produce the fuel, a couple of years ago I think, was the best diplomatic way out of this.