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Russia says West still considering military action on Iran
 
By Gleb Bryanski
 
MOSCOW | Sun May 20, 2012 2:24pm EDT
 
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that 
military action against Iran over its nuclear program was being 
considered in some Western countries.
 
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was speaking to reporters on a 
plane on his way back from the G8 summit in Camp David, where the G8 
leaders signaled their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles 
quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Iran threatened to 
strain supplies.
 
"It is one of many various signals coming from various sources that the 
military option is considered as realistic and possible," he said. "We 
are receiving signals, both through public and intelligence channels, 
that this option is now being reviewed in some capitals as more 
applicable in this situation".
 
"We are very worried about this. We do not want the region and the world 
to fall into...new divisions and bitter political arguments," he said.
 
Western countries suspect Iran's nuclear program is aimed at making a 
nuclear bomb, a charge Tehran denies.
 
A European Union embargo of Iranian crude takes effect in July and tough 
new U.S. sanctions come into force in late June. Iran's oil exports have 
fallen by more than a fifth this year.
 
Russia has adamantly urged Western nations not to attack Iran to 
neutralize its nuclear program, saying that threats would only encourage 
Tehran to develop such weapons.
 
Ryabkov dismissed suggestions that Russia, the world's biggest oil 
exporter, sought to keep tensions around Iran on the boil in order to 
benefit from higher global oil prices.
 
"It would be a simplification and possibly even a deliberate distortion 
of Moscow's position to believe that based on some wild, egoistic 
intentions, we want oil to cost $200 per barrel," Ryabkov said.
 
He said Russia wanted to keep oil prices stable at a level acceptable to 
consumers and suppliers. He said that any gains from the oil price spike 
would be short-lived.
 
A meeting between Iran and six world powers - Russia, China, the United 
States, Britain, France and Germany - is scheduled to take place in 
Baghdad on May 23.
 
Ryabkov said Russia had drafted a set of proposals for the Baghdad 
talks, saying negotiations needed to produce evidence of progress to the 
international community.
 
Proposals included suggested steps for Iran to restore international 
confidence as well as incentives on cooperation, said Ryabkov, adding 
that any followup round of talks should take place within weeks in order 
to maintain the momentum.
 
"Practical results are needed that can be shown to the international 
community as evidence that we are moving forward," Ryabkov said.
 
TENSIONS OVER SYRIA
 
Much like with Iran, Moscow has long urged Western powers not to 
intervene in Syria over bloodshed in which the United Nations says more 
than 9,000 people have been killed.
 
At a G8 summit in France in May 2011, Russia successfully managed to 
water down a statement on Syria removing calls for action against Syrian 
President Bashar al-Assad.
 
Ryabkov said that this time part of the G8 statement which concerns 
Syria, which called for a "political transition leading to a democratic 
plural political system", fully satisfied Russia.
 
"Anything that will be a product of the process of national 
reconciliation and dialogue will satisfy the Russian side. We are 
nobody's advocates in this process," he said.
 
Ryabkov said Assad's departure from power in a scenario similar to 
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had been granted immunity from 
prosecution, was discussed at the G8 summit, but Russia opposed the idea.
 
(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski, editing by Maria Golovnina and Diana Abdallah)
 
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 Russia says West still considering military action on Iran
 
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