Putin, Khamenei defiant over Assad future
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree this year allowing a tabled contract for the missile defense system to proceed, as global negotiations over Iran’s nuclear energy program appeared to be advancing.
Washington’s “cooperation with countries which have no standing in the public opinion of regional and world [nations] due to their support for terrorists shows that the Americans have no honorable diplomacy”, Ayatollah Khamenei said.
Those who claim for democracy can not ignore the vote of the Syrian people, he said, emphasizing the continuation of Russia’s air strikes against the terrorists in the country.
Khamenei said the United States had a “long-term plan” to dominate Syria and the Middle East that would “disadvantage all countries, especially Iran and Russia“.
“This threat should be neutralised wisely and with closer interaction”, he was quoted as saying in a statement. And they said the US and European Union would probably need to offer up significant concessions to Mr. Putin, such as the lifting of economic sanctions imposed on Russian Federation past year after its annexation of Crimea, to get Moscow to dump Mr. Assad.
However, a number of important problems remain unsolved, such as reducing Iran’s existing stocks of low-enriched uranium (LEU); dismantling the active core and changing the design of the heavy-water reactor under construction at Arak; and converting the underground uranium enrichment plant at Fordow into a nuclear, physical and technological research center for the production of isotopes for medical purposes.
Russian Federation is willing to take any low-enriched uranium over 300 kilograms (660 pounds) in exchange for natural-uranium ore, the Kremlin said today on its website.
Putin and Khamenei utilized the meeting on Monday to hammer home that they cherish the mutual trust between their two countries and intend to preserve it no matter what it takes. The West wants him to step down, while Russian Federation and Iran have provided him diplomatic and, increasingly, military cover.
Putin’s three-day visit to Tehran was scheduled around a summit on gas exports.
Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, met Monday afternoon with Vladimir Putin, the President of Russian Federation.
He believes the worst problem of Syria’s government army is until just recently it saw its main task not in protecting the nation’s borders, but in support for internal security and in staying loyal to Bashar Assad.
Against the backdrop of poorer relations with the United States and Europe, in November 2015 Russian Federation signed a new deal with Iran to supply the S-300.
This is Putin’s first visit to Iran since 2007 and it also reflects how the nuclear deal reached in July with the Obama administration has untied Russia’s hands to develop its relations with Tehran more publicly. Akhmetov does not rule out that Iran in the near future may try to increase its oil quota on the world market of fossil fuels, which will push oil prices down, thereby harming the interests of Russian Federation and other oil-producing countries.
