Summary
Despite voting for a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Iran to halt its nuclear program, Russia continues to assist the rogue state with the development of a laser isotope separation process that uses laser technology to enrich uranium and do so more efficiently than with gas centrifuges. That, at least, is the troubling report from a Russian nuclear engineer in the German newspaper Der Spiegel this week. Iran first tried to obtain the technology from Russia in 1999 or 2000, and in a 2003 letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran admitted it had pursued the technology but claimed that it no longer had such a program.
If accurate, the report reveals a disturbing contradiction between Russia's Security Council vote against the Iranian nuclear program and its secret willingness to aid that country's nuclear ambitions. What this story also highlights is a more obstinate Russian disregard for the West and for the United States in particular that Mr. Putin has used in recent years to fashion a more assertive foreign policy. As we wrote in July as Russian President Vladimir Putin played host at the G-8 meeting in St. Petersburg and, as host, managed to keep specific criticism of Syria and Iran out of a statement on the Middle East crisis Russia was moving in the direction of the odd man out in the club of industrialized democracies. The United States benefits from the best relationship possible with Mr. Putin's energy superpower, but that relationship cannot be founded on false pretenses.See the full content of this document
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Duplicitous Russia
The United States also announced last week that it put in place sanctions on two ...
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