Russian President Vladimir Putin told the press that one of the reasons why Russia is not aiding Iranians in the war is that “Israel is almost a Russian-speaking country,” Ynet reported.
Speaking at a news conference on Friday, Putin said that the Kremlin “traditionally enjoys good and friendly relations with the Arab world. It has been said here that we must show a certain solidarity—and that is true. But in any case, every conflict is rather unique. I want to draw your attention to the fact that almost two million Russian-speaking people live in Israel. It is almost a Russian-speaking country today.”
“Who said that we were supposed to do more?” Putin continued. “What else? Start combat operations?”
“We defend Iran’s right to nuclear energy in the name of peace. We built a nuclear reactor in Iran and signed contracts for two more. We continue that work; we haven’t evacuated our people from there. Isn’t that support for Iran?”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Those involved in Russian kiruv may have been aware of this position by Putin for quite some time. (As a side note, Putin owns a vacation home in Cesaria). Avigdor Lieberman is viewed by some as a Kremlin plant thanks to this attitude.
As far as the Russian nuclear sites in Iran, the existing one (and the two proposed plants) are traditional low enriched nuclear power plants. It would take decades of running these before you could enrich enough fissile plutonium out of the spent material. (I believe that these sites are the ayatollah’s backup plans)
As of now the Israelis have not hit the power plants in Bushehr (this is the Russian operated power plant).
Putin’s a joke