US Pressuring Russia To Drop Weapons Sale To Iran

[Owais]

US Pressuring Russia To Drop Weapons Sale To Iran


Moscow: Russia is coming under US pressure to cancel a contract to deliver Tor-M1 mobile air defence systems to Iran due to concerns about Tehran's nuclear programme, a respected business daily reported Tuesday.

"Observers say that under pressure from the United States, Russia could cancel this deal and are already saying that it has been suspended," the Vedomosti daily said.
The newspaper cited a political analyst close to the Kremlin, Sergei Markov, as saying that delivery of the air defence systems had been delayed until the autumn out of consideration for US worries.
But the paper also referred to a source close to Russia's arms export agency, Rosoboronexport, as saying that the delay in fulfilling the order -- originally signed last November -- was due to the need to train personnel.
"The deal with Iran could only be broken in the event of the purchaser failing to pay. Cancellation of the contract under pressure from the United States would damage Russia's reputation as an arms exporter," the paper quoted an analyst, Konstantin Makiyenko of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, as saying.
Under the contract, signed in November, Iran is to pay more than 700 million dollars for 29 of the sophisticated short-range air defence systems, Russian defence sources said earlier.
Russia is a key ally of Iran's and has been building Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr, in the south of the country.
Washington suspects that Iran's stated aim of developing civilian nuclear power is a front for developing nuclear weapons.

 

[A.Rahman]

now I am 100% sure that US will attack Iran.

 

[Owais]

now I am 100% sure that US will attack Iran.

attacking on Iran is not even an option for US. They know what will happend if they attack Iran. Iran will simply block all the oil supply through its seas. also, Israel and The oil terminals of UAE. Abu dhabi, Kuwait, qatar and saudi-arab are in the range of Iran's shahab4 missile. so in this case, oil prices will touch upto $200/barel which would be a nightmare for US economy.

 

[Bull]

attacking on Iran is not even an option for US. They know what will happend if they attack Iran. Iran will simply block all the oil supply through its seas. also, Israel and The oil terminals of UAE. Abu dhabi, Kuwait, qatar and saudi-arab are in the range of Iran's shahab4 missile. so in this case, oil prices will touch upto $200/barel which would be a nightmare for US economy.

Owais u need to be more practical in making assumptions.

By doing so as wht u said wht iran will do is ultimatly unify the world opinion to take out Iran and even a nuclear strike with a world mandate cannot be writen off.

Iran wont have the guts to attack any gulf country with their missiles,wht they will do max is to use suicidal boats to hit tankers which might affect crude prices by 2 or 3 dollars.thats it.

and while saying crude at 200$ why r u worried abt US economy ,they will be better off as they have the largester reserve of oil .Countries like China,India,Brazil will see there economic boom nose diving.

 

[Owais]

Owais u need to be more practical in making assumptions.

By doing so as wht u said wht iran will do is ultimatly unify the world opinion to take out Iran and even a nuclear strike with a world mandate cannot be writen off.

Iran wont have the guts to attack any gulf country with their missiles,wht they will do max is to use suicidal boats to hit tankers which might affect crude prices by 2 or 3 dollars.thats it.

and while saying crude at 200$ why r u worried abt US economy ,they will be better off as they have the largester reserve of oil .Countries like China,India,Brazil will see there economic boom nose diving.

variation of only 2 to 3 dollars in war? fix your self!
The oil prices are increasing 1-3 USD every second/third month when even a bullet is not fired! and you are saying that it will hike only 2-3 USD if US attacks Iran?
crude price on 06/1/2005 was 44$/barel and now it reaches to 72$/barel.
http://www.wtrg.com/daily/crudeoilprice.html
Iran is the second largest exporter of oil which fullfills about 35% export requirement of OPEC. means there will be about 40% shortage of oil if US strikes on Iran. and It would be baseless to say that decrease in 40% quantity increases price only up to 4%.
you are right that US have largest reserves of oil. but they also worried about their oil based economy.
If US didn't worried about their economy, they will never waste their resources and time on Iraq.
I didn't say that Iran will block oil supply of whole world. what I mean to say is that iran will block supply of US and its alleys(NATO). for doing this, destruction of Israel and The oil terminals of UAE. Abu dhabi, Kuwait, qatar and saudi-arab By missile attack is the last option.

 

[Bull]

variation of only 2 to 3 dollars in war? fix your self!
The oil prices are increasing 1-3 USD every second/third month when even a bullet is not fired! and you are saying that it will hike only 2-3 USD if US attacks Iran?
crude price on 06/1/2005 was 44$/barel and now it reaches to 72$/barel.
http://www.wtrg.com/daily/crudeoilprice.html
Iran is the second largest exporter of oil which fullfills about 35% export requirement of OPEC. means there will be about 40% shortage of oil if US strikes on Iran. and It would be baseless to say that decrease in 40% quantity increases price only up to 4%.
you are right that US have largest reserves of oil. but they also worried about their oil based economy.
If US didn't worried about their economy, they will never waste their resources and time on Iraq.
I didn't say that Iran will block oil supply of whole world. what I mean to say is that iran will block supply of US and its alleys(NATO). for doing this, destruction of Israel and The oil terminals of UAE. Abu dhabi, Kuwait, qatar and saudi-arab By missile attack is the last option.

Oil has skyrocketed due to various reasons...not because of iran only and most of the movement ws due to hedgefunds allocation more money to their commodities desk and they building up positions in oil and precious metals.

Most of the shock that could come is already factored in....and 2-3 $ movement is for a hit on tanker ad not in an event of a war.

 

[Owais]

Oil has skyrocketed due to various reasons...not because of iran only and most of the movement ws due to hedgefunds allocation more money to their commodities desk and they building up positions in oil and precious metals.

Most of the shock that could come is already factored in....and 2-3 $ movement is for a hit on tanker ad not in an event of a war.

they will hit it in war...not in this situation as well as They don't hit only one tanker if war happens.

 

[Bull]

they will hit it in war...not in this situation as well as They don't hit only one tanker if war happens.

Owais there is onething in the market,that is one thump rule.Its the uncertainity that makes the market volatile and dangerous.Once the uncertainity is gone then market is more predicable.

It will help you ,if u study how markets behaved when gulf wars or kargil war happened.Or how the market reacted during the sep11 to the first afghan bombings or during the london bomb attacks.

 

[Owais]

Owais there is onething in the market,that is one thump rule.Its the uncertainity that makes the market volatile and dangerous.Once the uncertainity is gone then market is more predicable.

It will help you ,if u study how markets behaved when gulf wars or kargil war happened.Or how the market reacted during the sep11 to the first afghan bombings or during the london bomb attacks.

Kargil war, london bombing and 9/11 attcks have no relations with crude market but gulf and mideast have.
are you trying to say that Iran war will affect no or less on oil prices? I think it will affect negatively on supply of oil hence making it more and more expansive.