The Russian foreign ministry has said that the country remains faithful to its obligations under the nonproliferation of weapons regime and that its nuclear cooperation with Iran is strictly in accordance with UN Security Council's demands.
The ministry was reacting to an article in the Washington Times, in which Henry Sokolsky, a member of the U.S congress committee for the prevention of proliferation of prohibited arms and terrorism, alleged that Russia was assisting Iran in the development of military components of its nuclear programme.
The article could well have been ignored since the writer presented no evidence to support his assertion; the commission on whose behalf the writer purports to speak exists in the American congress only but is not part of it. In the meantime, the whole world knows that Russia is fulfilling its obligations only in the building of the Bushehr aware nuclear power station, and it should also be borne in mind that in its November 16 report the IAEA confirmed the absence of military component in Tehran's nuclear programme, although the report talks about unresolved issues relating to past activity on which Russia has no connection.
It bears repeating that Russia is not in any way connected with realization of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. By the way, no documentary evidence has been produced to back all the well known suspicion in the world about Iran's programme. Moscow has said again and again that any Iranian nuclear ambition violates its obligation under the nonproliferation of nuclear arms regime and is inimical to Russian national interests.
What's more, all old misunderstandings between Russia and the U.S on the issue have been addressed. The U.S President Barack Obama and his secretary of state Hilary Clinton have in recent times declared that Russian and American position on Iran's nuclear programme are identical, saying that the U.S administration remains satisfied with Russian cooperation on the issue. Against this background, the article in Washington Times is reminiscent of the cold war era and amounts to a crude attempt to resurrect old and sleeping antagonism between Russia and the United States. Unfortunately, one is forced to admit that there remain many people in foreign countries trying to throw a wedge into efforts at normalizing Russian-American ties and to paint Russia darker than it really is internati0nally.Washington Times is known as the instrument in the hands of some military and political elite in the U.S who do not want resetting of the Russia-America relations.
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