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Russian nuclear assistance to Iran. (Insider Report).(Russians helping Iran to build up nuclear capabilities)
"As Aeroflot Flight 515 from Moscow begins its predawn descent into Teheran, the group of middle-aged Russian experts on board begins to fill out landing cards for Iran," begins a June 21st Christian Science Monitor report. "Pulling out dog-eared, still-valid Soviet passports, the men write down their profession -- engineer -- and their destination: Bushehr, the city on the Persian Gulf that is home to Iran's nuclear-power project -- and to 1,000 Russian engineers and technicians."
Immensely wealthy in both oil and natural gas, Iran insists that the Bushehr project is devoted to peaceful energy production. There is reason to suspect otherwise. One U.S. official quoted by the Monitor notes that Russia is helping Iranian scientists master "the nuclear-fuel cycle, and some critical technologies like sophisticated metal alloys and laser isotope separation techniques ... involved in building the bomb. ... There's enough to see a pattern of determined Iranian effort that has unfortunately struck positive responses from some Russian entities."
During the late 1990s, the Clinton administration expressed ...
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