Russia Accuses US Of Exaggerating Iran Missile Threat

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Source: Guardian UK

A senior Russian official today accused the US of grossly exaggerating the missile threat posed by hostile powers such as Iran, predicting there would be no menace from the Middle East "for at least a decade to come".

Alexander Sternik, a senior diplomat at Russia's London embassy, made his comments in the course of a blistering attack on America's plans to site missile interceptors in Poland and a large radar in the Czech Republic.

"For the first time it will add a strategic component for US forward forces close to Russia's borders," he told a conference organised by the Royal United Services Institute, a defence thinktank. If the US took up Moscow's offer to use a radar base in Azerbaijan instead, there would be a "tectonic shift" in their relations, he added.

His remarks come at a time when the Obama administration is conducting a review of America's policy on missile defence. Lt Gen Patrick O'Reilly, director of the US missile defence agency, had been due to speak at today's conference but cancelled at the last moment because he was summoned to what were described as "high-level consultations".

Nancy Morgan, the agency's director of international affairs, spoke on his behalf. Neither she nor a senior Pentagon official who also addressed the conference in a prepared speech were willing to answer questions.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/28/russia-us-iran-missile-threat

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1. Is this Russia's way of saying...

Don't bring that weak ass shit to the U.N. Security Council?

Russia has the power to veto any sanctions or action against Iran the U.S. brings forth.

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2. No way they are hitting mainland USA

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. No shit - they sorta exaggerated Iraq's capabilities just a wee bit, no?

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But the USA needed a country to practice with all their new weapons,

and Iraq has oil - so it's a win-win

for the PNAC/Bush gangs.

Everyone else loses, millions of Iraqis displaced, thousands slaughtered;

even the USA taxpayers that have to pay for this slaughterhouse

and live with the shame that is going to haunt the US-Americans for decades, maybe centuries to come.

Hitler's Germany will fade off as the US-America takes over the limelight through it's aggressive and torturous efforts to dominate the World

BUT

We all know,

well,

except the wizards in the WhiteHouse

what happens to Empirical nations . . . .