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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday said there was no indication of a “political decision” of the Iranian authorities to build a nuclear bomb but that one would certainly be made if Iran is attacked by Israel. The assessment he made comes in perfect agreement with the information the U.S. intelligence offered the Israelis, which state that although Iran could create a bomb, no political decision has been made in that direction.

The Supreme Leader of Iran, ayatollah Khomeini, said on many occasions that Iran had a right to pursue a nuclear program aimed at acquiring energy for civilian purposes, and that he was against the nuclear proliferation. Many fatwas of the ayatollah speak against nuclear weapons.

This confidence of the American and the Russian is not shared by the Israelis, which insist upon air strikes against Iranian nuclear plants. The Israeli cabinet operates with the data offered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which showed that a military computer simulation was made in relation to the nuclear program.

Last month, Israeli PM went to Washington to convince Barack Obama of the need to convince Iran that the United States would be on Israel’s side, if such an attack would be staged.

On that occasion, Barack Obama said that the United States would protect Israel but urged that there should be no “loose war talk” because that would play into the Iranian hand, since such rumors would bring the prices high, and consequently Iran would have more money to invest in the nuclear program.

Obama said that it was still time for the sanctions to be allowed to work their way into the Iranian economy. Prime minister Netanyahu replied that Israel can not wait much longer for the sanctions to kick in, and action must be taken before it is too late.

In an interview broadcasted on radio Lavrov also criticized the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his repeated threats to destroy Israel, saying that such an attitude was “completely unacceptable.”

On many occasions Ahmadinejad explained that he was not talking about destroying the state of Israel but merely about the collapse of what he called “the Zionist state.”

The Russian FM also spoke during the interview about the American intention of maintaining a military presence in Afghanistan and Central Asia after 2014, when the military drawdown from Afghanistan is completed.

“We would like to know what the purpose of such presence is,” Lavrov said, adding that it could be used against “third countries.” Leon Panetta, U.S. defense secretary, met with the Afghan president and members of the parliament in an attempt to convince them to continue the American presence after the drawdown in 2014.

On that occasion, the Afghan lawmakers insisted that no agreement be signed by the afghan government unless Robert Bales, the U.S. Staff Sergeant that killed 16 in three Afghan villages, is judged on Afghan soil.

Bales has been extracted from Afghanistan, and is now in the Leavenworth penitentiary pending charges brought against him. The American authorities said that the fact that he was in an American pre-trial facility does not mean that he would not be taken to Afghanistan when the trial begins.

Leon Panetta also visited Kyrgyzstan to make sure that Manas Transit Centre remains available to the American troops at least until 2014, when the troops are expected to leave Afghanistan and to transit this airport on their way home.

The Kygyz president said that the airport could remain open for American use but that it should become a civilian installation after 2014. He also expressed fear that Iran might strike it in retaliation in case of attacks on its nuclear facilities.

Russian FM also said that the discussion with the Taliban should be handled by the Afghan government not by the Americans.

Speaking of international agenda of Russia, outgoing president of the federation, Dmitry Medvedev said that by 2018-2019 Russia should be “fully prepared” and “fully armed” to counter American plans to build the anti-missile system in eastern Europe.

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