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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (256073)	5/17/2002 8:54:01 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Your buddies in Iran are getting nukes too. If your Kashmir terrorist friends don't start WWIII, maybe your Iranian buds will succeed? May. 16, 2002 Israel wants Iran nukes on agenda of Bush-Putin summit The government is lobbying Washington to place Iranian nuclear proliferation high on the agenda of next week's critical summit between US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is expected to go a long way toward codifying a new world order. The topic of the transfer of nuclear and missile technology from Russia to Iran was discussed at high-level US-Israeli talks in Washington over the last two weeks. According to senior diplomatic officials, the topic was discussed Monday during the Israeli-US strategic dialogue between Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and his staffers, and National Security Council head Uzi Dayan, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's foreign affairs adviser Danny Ayalon, Foreign Ministry Director-General Avi Gil, and Defense Ministry deputy director-general Koti Mor. A week before, a high-ranking delegation went to Washington to specifically talk with the administration about the nuclear and missile technology "leakage" issue. This delegation met with Undersecretary of State John Bolton. One diplomatic official said it is both presumptuous and unrealistic for Israel to ask the US to hold up an agreement with the Russians to cut nuclear stockpiles by two-thirds, or not to form a new Russian-NATO committee to coordinate policy on a number of issues unless they put an end to nuclear and missile leakage to Iran. The idea, he said, is to "weave" the Iranian proliferation issue "into the fabric" of the overall US-Russian dialogue. Bush and Putin are slated to hold a three-day summit beginning May 23. "The whole US-Russia relationship is changing," the official said. "You have the cuts of the nuclear arsenal, NATO's expansion, its cooperation with Russia, Russia's involvement in the war on terror, and even Russian involvement in the Middle East as part of the quartet [together with the US, European Union, and UN]." He said Israel does not want this new world order to fall into place with the phenomenon of nuclear and missile transfers from Russia to Iran an accepted part of it. The US has been intimately involved in the efforts to curb leakage since the mid-1990s. Leakage is the transfer of nuclear technology and materials to Iran, often with a wink and a nod from the Russian government, as well as transfer of missile technology and some missile parts, often by disgruntled individuals and non-governmental bodies, such as academic institutions. He said Russia's interest in this transfer is both financial and geopolitical. The financial interests are obvious, he said, while one of its geopolitical interests is having Iran as a buffer to mute criticism from the Moslem world over Russia's handling of the situation in Chechnya, as was the case at a recent conference of Islamic nations. But, the official said, "Putin is a serious leader. We hope he will see that it is not in his interest to have a nuclear Iran, with missiles with a 1,300-km range, on his border." Judging by talks with US officials, however, Jerusalem is not banking solely on Putin's good judgment, but also wants the US to help him realize that a nuclear Iran is in nobody's best interest. jpost.com