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From: LindyBill8/22/2011 3:20:09 PM
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Don’t Let Russia Use Iran as a Bargaining Chip


August 22, 2011 1:34 P.M.
By Daniel Vajdic

Several events in recent days indicate deepening ties between Iran and Russia. Last Monday, Russian Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev paid an official two-day visit to Iran. Patrushev predictably held talks with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council head Saeed Jalili. In an effort to highlight warming relations between the two countries, he also met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi. The next day Salehi traveled to Moscow at the invitation of his Russian counterpart.

Moreover, in several weeks Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko will likely be in Iran to inaugurate the commissioning of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which Russia has been constructing for the last 16 years. Shmatko is expected to discuss with Iranian officials plans for increased cooperation between Moscow and Tehran in the realm of energy, especially Russian participation in the development of Iran’s massive yet relatively unexploited natural-gas fields.

The sudden opening in Russian-Iranian relations comes 14 months after Moscow consented to a fourth round of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Tehran — hailed by the Obama administration as the most tangible benefit of its Russian “reset.” The Kremlin’s acquiescence to additional, albeit heavily watered down, sanctions against Iran was followed by its decision last September to cancel the sale of Russia’s advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Iran.

But Russia seems to be changing its approach toward Iran.

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