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Titolo: Putin warns against Iran attack during landmark visit

Putin warns against Iran attack during landmark visit
Agence France-Presse | Oct 17, 2007 
 
TEHRAN: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned against
military action on Iran and backed its right to nuclear energy, during the
first visit to the country by a Kremlin chief since World War II.
 
Putin, attending a summit meeting of Caspian Sea states, arrived in the
Iranian capital amid heavy security and secrecy over his travel plans
after reports that a squad of suicide bombers planned to kill him.
"It is important... that we not only do not use any kind of force but also
do not even think about the possibility of using force," Putin told the
four other Caspian Sea leaders gathered for the summit.
"It is also important that we talk about the impossibility of using our
territory for other countries to carry out aggression or military action
against other Caspian littoral states."
Along with the presidents of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and
Turkmenistan, Putin declared the states "would not allow their territory
to be used by a third country to commit military action against one of the
parties."
The United States has never ruled out military action against Tehran, but
Iran's northern neighbour Azerbaijan, a US ally, has repeatedly insisted
it would not allow the US military to launch an attack from its soil.
Tuesday's declaration also supported Iran's right to nuclear energy, which
the United States claims Tehran only wants as cover for an atomic weapons
drive.
It backed the right of Non-Proliferation Treaty members to "research,
produce and use nuclear energy for peaceful ends, without discrimination,
within the framework of this treaty and the mechanisms of the UN nuclear
watchdog."
Putin's comments highlighted the differences between Russia and the West,
which is seeking more unilateral and UN sanctions to punish Tehran for its
nuclear defiance.
Russia has insisted that diplomacy is the way to solve the standoff and
has said it is not convinced by the Western claims Iran's nuclear
programme is military in nature. Tehran insists its atomic drive is
entirely peaceful.
However, Putin was downbeat on the work to complete Iran's first nuclear
power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, which is being built by a
Russian contractor.
He said the much-delayed project was being held back by "worn-out
equipment" dating back to the time the project was started in the 1970s by
Germany's Siemens under the deposed shah.
"This is one of the problems preventing swift completion of the work in
Bushehr," Putin said after talks with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who
he also invited to visit Russia.
But Putin reaffirmed that Moscow was committed to finishing the plant
within a timetable the currently sees the plant going online in late 2008.
Putin also held talks with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
when the Russian president said Moscow had an interest in a "strong Iran"
and predicted that relations would expand further, state television
reported.
Reports on Russian news agencies of an assassination threat had cast doubt
over whether Putin would go ahead with the visit but to the relief of
Iranian officials, his plane landed at Tehran's Mehrabad airport early on
Tuesday.
The arrangements for Putin's departure were also being kept under wraps.
Russia's Interfax news agency, citing a source in the Russian special
services, had reported on Sunday that a group of suicide bombers would try
to kill Putin in Tehran. The Kremlin said Putin had been notified of the
report.
Iranian media reported that Putin's armour-plated car had been
air-freighted into Tehran ahead of his visit to ensure his security.
The Islamic republic has regularly hosted allies who share its antipathy
towards the United States such as Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko,
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
But a visit by a statesman of Putin's stature -- his country is a
veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council -- was a major
event.
The last Kremlin chief to visit Iran was Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin,
who attended the famous conference of the "Big Three" World War II Allied
powers in Tehran in 1943 alongside Winston Churchill and Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
 
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