PUTIN TO VISIT HIS CLIENTS IN TEHRAN

NYTIMES/AP:

When President Vladimir Putin visits Tehran this week, he will be closely watched for any sign he has moved closer to launching the nuclear reactor Russia is building for Iran.

Russia has resisted the U.S. push for stronger sanctions against Tehran and strongly warned Washington against using force in its standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. But Moscow's position is carefully hedged. It has delayed completing the plant, Iran's first, and is urging the country to comply with international controls on its nuclear activities.

Any show of support for Iran, such as a pledge by Putin to quickly complete the power plant, could embolden Iran and further cloud Russia's relations with the West.

Besides murdering a slew of polcitical opponents in Russia, and messing with Ukriane's electoral process and cutting off their gas in dispute, and murdering Litvinenko in London, and expanding the state's powers and using it to seize thne property of some of Russia's wealthiest citizens, and arming Assad and Chavez and Iran... Russia is also building Iran's nuclear reactor.

Putin is not an ally.

He is a dangerous foe.

Rice has finally acknowledged this. We need to support the forces of democracy in Russia.

For the the sake of the Russian people and our own and the Free World's security.