PUTIN SELLS MORE WEAPONS TO IRAN

HAARETZ/REUTERS (12:39PM):

Iran minister: Russia to supply Tehran with new missile system

Russia has agreed to sell an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday in the Iranian Fars News Agency.

S-300 missiles are longer-ranging than the TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles which Russia, in a deal criticized by the West, earlier this year said it had delivered to the Islamic Republic under a $1 billion contract.

Iran is under United Nations sanctions due to its refusal to halt sensitive atomic work that Western powers suspect it wants to master so that it can build nuclear bombs, but they do not ban conventional weapons sales to the country.

LEMME GET THIS STRAIGHT:

• THE IRANIANS BOUGHT A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT US CHERNOBYL.
• AND MORE ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES FROM THE FOLKS WHO SOLD ASSAD HIS POROUS DEFENSE SYSTEMS (JUST RENDERED USELESS BY THE IAF).
• EITHER PUTIN IS A GREAT SALESMAN OR THE IRANIANS ARE AS DUMB AS SHIT.
• PROBABLY BOTH.

SERIOUSLY: PUTIN IS GONNA BE A BIG PROBLEM FOR YEARS TO COME - AND I WANT OUR NEXT PRESIDENT TO HANDLE HIM BETTER THAN BUSH AND CONDI DID.

SHOULDN'T BE HARD: THEY SUCKED IT UP BIGTIME.

WEASELS REUNITE AT BLACK SEA RESORT

RIA NOVOSTI:

Former French president Jacques Chirac and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have arrived in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on private visits, the Kremlin said on Sunday.

The ex-leaders traveled to Russia on the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press office said.

On September 25, Schroeder will chair a shareholders' meeting in Sochi of Nord Stream AG, a company building a natural gas pipeline under the Baltic, of which the ex-chancellor is the supervisory chief.

State-controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] holds a 51% stake in Nord Stream AG...

CHINA POST:

The former French and German leaders Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder arrived at Russia's Black Sea coastal resort of Sochi on Sunday as guests of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said. Contacted by AFP, a Kremlin spokesman described the visit of the former French president and the former German chancellor as "private" and confirmed they had been invited by Putin.

The Russian leader had close ties with both men during their terms in office, symbolised in their united front against the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Schroeder was to attend a meeting in Sochi of the shareholders' committee of the Gazprom-led company that plans to build a pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

CHIRAQ, SCHROEDER AND PUTIN ARE NOT WEASELS; THEY ARE CROOKED; THEY ARE SCUM.

(HAT TIP NO PASARAN.)

MORE ON THE CORRUPT SCHROEDER HERE.

THE REAL AXIS OF EVIL: PUTIN; AHMADINEJAD; CHAVEZ; ASSAD AND THE RED CHINESE

BBC:

Mr Chavez has chosen his allies carefully. Iran has nuclear expertise to offer, while China represents a very attractive market for Venezuelan oil.

In Russia, Mr Chavez has found a partner that has no problem disregarding Washington's worries and selling him weapons. ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Russia, where he will meet his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for talks on military co-operation.

Mr Chavez is expected to visit a helicopter factory and discuss the possible purchase of diesel submarines.

This is Mr Chavez's second visit in under a year to Russia, which he has designated as a "strategic partner". ... But perhaps the symbolism of what follows Mr Chavez's visit is what matters most. After leaving Russia, he will travel to Belarus and Iran.

CHINA - BLOCKS AID TO AND INTERVENTION FOR DARFUR.

RUSSIAN ARMS SYRIA AND BUILDS IRAN'S NUKES.
VENEZUELA EMBRACES AHMADINEJAD AND CASTRO AND MUGABE.

WHAT A CREW.

WE NEED TO BE MUCH HARSHER WITH THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM.