Technical, Military Cooperation With Iran Will Continue: Russian Official

[Purveyor]

MOSCOW (IRNA) – The director of the Special Orders Department of the Russian state armaments company Abarounexport has underlined that technical and military cooperation with Iran will continue.

According to the Ria-Novosti, Mikhail Zavali, who was visiting Russia international aviation exhibition on Friday, said, ""Russia will continue its cooperation with Iran on technical, military and energy issues in spite of the U.S. opposition.""

He said, ""We have invested a lot in the country and there exists a good outlook for Russian presence in Iran, so we are to take profit from our investment and we do not care about other countries view on the issue.""

The official also underlined development of military cooperation with China and added, ""Russia will continue to deliver our transportation plane ""Ilyushin-76"" and fuel supplier plane "" Ilyushin-78"" to China.

TEHRAN TIMES: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=177136

[MarkInCA]

1. I think our reversal to Cold War like relations

Is going to be the defining issue for the next president. It's like I am seeing evrything in reverse. As someone in my early 40's, I never thought I would see no Berlin Wall, no Soviet Union, No Castro in immediate power, and many other things that have changed in the world. I think how lucky I am to have witnessed many historic and hopefully positive changes.

Problem is in the last 8 years we are going backwords. We are invading countries based on sketchy intelligence (at best). Russia is now expanding again and reclaiming former Soviet states/territories. The US has lost repect among the international community. Many countries are building to nuclear capacity.

Regardless of his international or executive experience, I would be much more comfotable knowing that Obama is negotiating and dealing with these issues (many times on a daily basis that we will never know about) in the calm, deductive manor I have seen him conduct himself since he came to national attention 4 years ago. The thought of McCain and his straight talk, say it now think about it later, warrior/hero attitude dealing with the tensions of today's world (largely magnifdied by GWB's tunnel vision focus on Iraq) is not comforting.