JACK’S GIANT PICKS UP GOLDEN EGGS AROUND CASPIAN SEA BEANSTALK!
The Russian Giant visits his Gold Laying Iranian Goose looking for more Gold Laying Geese around the Caspian Sea!
October 17, 2007
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Begin Gulf News Article 1
Russia’s Putin arrives in Iran for talks
10/16/2007 09:49 AM | Agencies
Tehran: Russian President Vladimir Putin, brushing off the threat of a reported plot to assassinate him, arrived in Iran on Tuesday for talks focusing on Tehran’s nuclear row with the West.
In the first visit by a Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin’s in 1943, Putin will meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is fighting calls from Western powers to stop nuclear work that Washington says is aimed at building atomic bombs.
Tehran says its intentions are peaceful.
Putin was welcomed at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, pictures broadcast by state television showed.
The Russian leader is visiting Tehran to join a summit of Caspian Sea states but Russian officials have said discussion of Iran’s nuclear row will be high on the agenda for bilateral talks.
Russian officials had suggested on Monday Putin might not come after a Russian news agency reported a plot to kill him during his visit.
Putin said he would come anyway.
Iran dismissed the report of any assassination plot as an effort by Tehran’s enemies — a reference to Western powers — to undermine ties with Moscow.
Begin AP Jerusalem Post Article 2
Putin warns against using Caspian territories for attack on regional powers
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
October 16, 2007
Russia, Iran and
other Caspian Sea countries strongly warned outside nations on Tuesday against using their territories for launching military action, but they failed to reach an agreement on ways to divide the sea’s vast energy resources.
The declaration at the end of the summit of leaders from the five nations bordering the inland sea, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, did not name any countries but it was a clear reference to long-standing rumors that the US might be planning to use Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic, as a staging ground for any possible military action against Iran.
“The parties underline that under no circumstances would they allow other nations to use their territory for waging aggression or other military action against any of the parties,” the declaration said.
The countries also offered a sign of support for Iran’s disputed nuclear program, stressing that any country that is signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty can “carry out research and can use nuclear energy for peaceful means without discrimination,” according to the declaration.
Earlier Tuesday Putin, whose trip to Iran is the first by a Kremlin leader since World War II, warned that projects of energy pipelines crossing the Caspian could only be implemented if all five littoral nations support them.
Moscow has strong opposition to US-backed efforts to build pipelines to deliver Central Asian and Caspian hydrocarbons to the West bypassing Russia.
The legal status of the Caspian – believed to contain the world’s third-largest energy reserves – has been in limbo since the 1991 Soviet collapse, leading to tension and conflicting claims to seabed oil deposits.
Iran, which shared the Caspian’s resources equally with the Soviet Union, insists that each coastal nation receive an equal portion of the seabed.
Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan want the division based on the length of each nation’s shoreline, which would give Iran a smaller share.
Turkmenistan is also vying for the Caspian’s resources.
The countries failed to reach an agreement on dividing the Caspian, but they agreed to continue holding regular talks. Ahmadinejad said the next Caspian summit will be held next year in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Following the summit, Putin and Ahmadinejad went into private talks. Putin indicated the meeting would touch on the Iran’s disputed nuclear program, but he did not elaborate.
Iran’s state-run television quoted Putin as saying Moscow would continue to support Iran.
“Responsible bodies in Russia will assist Iran’s peaceful nuclear program,” the television quoted Putin as saying as the Russian president entered his meeting with Ahmadinejad.
Observers at the talks said Iran’s nuclear chief, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, would also attend the meeting.
Putin also planned to meet with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Putin’s visit is taking place amid hopes that a round of personal diplomacy could help offer a solution to an international standoff on Iran’s nuclear program.
The Russian leader’s trip had been thrown into doubt when the Kremlin said Sunday that he had been informed by Russian special services that suicide attackers might try to kill him in Teheran, but he shrugged off the warning.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini called the reports disinformation spread by adversaries who hoped to spoil good relations between Russia and Iran.
Putin has warned the US and other nations against trying to coerce Iran into reining in its nuclear program and insists peaceful dialogue is the only way to deal with Teheran’s defiance of a UN Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment.
Iran’s rejection of the council’s demand and its previous clandestine atomic work has fed suspicions in the US and others that Teheran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes, including generating electricity.
Putin underlined his disagreements with Washington last week, saying he saw no “objective data” to prove claims that Iran is trying to construct nuclear weapons. On Monday, he emphasized that he would negotiate in Teheran on behalf of the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany, a group that has led efforts to resolve the stalemate with Teheran.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the US government expected Putin to “convey the concerns shared by all of us about the failure of Iran to comply with the international community’s requirements concerning its nuclear program.”
While the Kremlin has shielded Teheran from a US push for a third round of UN sanctions, Iran has voiced annoyance about Moscow’s foot-dragging in building a nuclear power plant in the southern port of Bushehr under a $1 billion contract.
Russia has warned that the plant would not be launched this fall as planned because Iran was slow in making payments. Iranian officials have angrily denied any payment arrears and accused the Kreml in of cav
ing in to Western pressure.
Moscow also has ignored Iranian demands to ship fuel for the plant, saying it would be delivered only six m
onths before the Bushehr plant goes on line. The launch date has been delayed indefinitely amid the payment dispute.
Begin DEBKAfile Article 3
Putin and Ahmadinejad lead Caspian Sea Tehran summit in reciprocal non-aggression pledge, but disappoints Iran on Bushehr
October 16, 2007, 6:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian president disappointed his Iranian hosts by refusing to set a date for completing the Bushehr nuclear reactor, blaming worn-out equipment from the time of the Shah and “legal issues.”
The presidents of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan agreed that no Caspian Sea country should be used as a launch-pad for a military strike against a fellow littoral nation.
DEBKAfile’s sources report this decision has bound member-states hosting US bases to withhold their use for attacking Iran.
On Sept. 22, DEBKAfile reported: “Sitting together at the Caspian Sea Summit next month, Putin and Ahmadinejad will be broadcasting a message to Washington and the nations of Central Asia that the future and security of Caspian natural resources and oil do not depend entirely on their relations with Washington, or even the US military bases going up on their soil. Russia will be posing a stiff challenge to America in Central Asia by holding out the offer of joint-strategic sponsorship with Iran.”
The Caspian summit which opened Tuesday is expected to lead to an agreement on legalizing the status of the rich Caspian resources and dividing them among its five littoral states – to the exclusion of interests outside the region.
The five Caspian nations also confirmed the right of each nation to produce nuclear energy for peaceful ends. Tehran is locked in a standoff with the US and Europe over their conviction that its “peaceful” program is the cover for a weapons drive.
Vladimir Putin, the first Russian president to visit Tehran since the Second World War, said after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy last week that he has no information of any such drive.
Putin touched down in Tehran after brushing off warnings of an assassination plot in Tehran. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources disclosed exclusively on Sun, Oct. 14, that three terrorist groups, Chechen separatists, al Qaeda and an ultra-radical faction of the Iranian regime had combined for a bid to murder Putin and that the plot was betrayed to Russian security agencies by a Chechen captured on his way to join the conspiracy.
Begin New Zealand Herald Excerpt 4
Putin invites Iranian president to Moscow
9:04AM Wednesday October 17, 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to travel to Moscow.
TEHRAN – Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to travel to Moscow for talks, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
The invitation followed a meeting between Putin and Ahmadinejad, who is fighting calls from Western powers to stop nuclear work that Washington says is aimed at building atomic bombs. Tehran says its intentions are peaceful.
“Ahmadinejad accepted the invitation with gratitude. The parties agreed to clear the dates for the visit through diplomatic channels,” Interfax quoted the two leaders as saying in a joint statement.
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