Vladimir Putin yesterday issued a thinly-veiled threat to arm Iran with missile defences if the West attacks Syria.
The Russian leader said Moscow had provided elements of the S-300 military technology to Syria but had frozen further shipments, suggesting they could be routed elsewhere.
That was widely seen as a threat to revive a contract for delivery of the S-300s to Iran, which Russia cancelled several years ago under strong US and Israeli pressure.
Warning the West: Putin sought to downplay the current chill in the U.S.-Russian relations and said that the two countries need to cooperate on a range of issues in the interests of global stability

Assisting the enemy: The U.S. says Russia has provided military support to Assad that has allowed him to cling to power during Syria's roughly 2-year-long civil war
Mr Putin’s intervention came ahead of a G20 summit he is hosting today in St Petersburg, in which he is expected to hold a difficult one-to-one meeting with David Cameron.
The S-300 system, which targets aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, would make military attempts to stop Iran building a nuclear bomb all but impossible without a ground invasion.

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad, said it would take ‘every measure’ if hit by a US-led military strike and would never give in, even if it led to ‘World War Three’.

But Mr Cameron told MPs there was a risk of a ‘Armageddon’ for the people of Syria if the use of chemical weapons went unpunished.
He suggested Labour and other opponents of military action were ‘letting down’ the people of Syria.

Mr Putin suggested he might back intervention in the UN Security Council if it was proved ‘beyond doubt’ that President Assad ordered a gas attack that killed 1,500 people, including hundreds of children, last month.

But diplomatic sources said that despite ‘overwhelming’ evidence against Assad, Russia was considering publishing a dossier seeking to blame rebel forces trying to topple the regime for the attack.
Mr Putin said it was ‘too early’ to talk about what Russia would do if the US attacked Syria without UN backing, adding: ‘We have our ideas about what we will do and how we will do it in case the situation develops toward the use of force or otherwise. We have our plans.’

The Russian leader called the S-300 air defence missile system ‘a very efficient weapon’ and said Russia had a contract for its delivery to Syria.

‘We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn’t been completed,’ he said. ‘We have suspended it for now.
‘But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world.’
In another significant escalation of tensions in the Middle East, Russia dispatched a large missile cruiser to the Mediterranean.

The cruiser, Moskva, will be joined by a destroyer from Russia’s Baltic fleet and a frigate from the Black Sea fleet, tasked with ‘protecting national interests’.
Mr Cameron insisted it would be ‘very perilous’ for the US to follow Britain’s example and step back from plans to hit Damascus in response to chemical weapons attacks, but he again told MPs that Britain will not take part in military action following last week’s Commons vote.


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i dey see danger...wahala dey!

Ghadaffi was a barking dog, but Assad is a quiet Lion who has proven to be unperturbed by sponsored terror in his country and seems to be ready to start the unpredictable. He says less, and I fear the last resort which he might employ when pushed to a point of no return.

I fear for innocent Israelites and their kids.

The chemical weapon technology has been transferred to Al-Qaeda backed rebellion and its a matter of time before its target is re-defined.

I fear for innocent Americans and their kids.


Iran has been a target of the Western Oligarchs and Syria was a major ally, now that the ally is decimated, then it is only a matter of time before the main war of the middle east begins, Iran has evolved over the time and can potentially produce high grade nuclear armament that can be trasported over thousands of kilometers using even the advancing drone and rockets technology to their sovereign foes.

I fear for the world's 7billion people.

Billyonaire: Ghadaffi was a barking dog, but Assad is a quiet Lion who has proven to be unperturbed by sponsored terror in his country and seems to be ready to start the unpredictable. He says less, and I fear the last resort which he might employ when pushed to a point of no return.

I fear for innocent Israelites and their kids.

The chemical weapon technology has been transferred to Al-Qaeda backed rebellion and its a matter of time before its target is re-defined.

I fear for innocent Americans and their kids.


Iran has been a target of the Western Oligarchs and Syria was a major ally, now that the ally is decimated, then it is only a matter of time before the main war of the middle east begins, Iran has evolved over the time and can potentially produce high grade nuclear armament that can be trasported over thousands of kilometers using even the advancing drone and rockets technology to their sovereign foes.

I fear for the world's 7billion people.

i think you wrongly analysed the two cases.
Gaddafi's army did not support him whilst assad has his intact.
if Assad's army deserted him, he's a gonna.

Western military intervention in Syria without a political plan for lasting peace is folly. over the years, interventions from the world powers have never left any country better. The list is endless..Iraq, Afganistan, Libya etc.

This morning, The Russian president asserted that if the Atomic facility in syria is struck and it diffuses into Europe. How do we control it.? America is too far away from Europe and so Europeans should be more careful not to go into war. The effect of a chemical release will travel into Europe. America is too far to be affected. Europe should think.

UK citizens are jubilating that they are not going for the war. You cant be better than those you rule

Billyonaire: Ghadaffi was a barking dog, but Assad is a quiet Lion who has proven to be unperturbed by sponsored terror in his country and seems to be ready to start the unpredictable. He says less, and I fear the last resort which he might employ when pushed to a point of no return.

I fear for innocent Israelites and their kids.

The chemical weapon technology has been transferred to Al-Qaeda backed rebellion and its a matter of time before its target is re-defined.

I fear for innocent Americans and their kids.


Iran has been a target of the Western Oligarchs and Syria was a major ally, now that the ally is decimated, then it is only a matter of time before the main war of the middle east begins, Iran has evolved over the time and can potentially produce high grade nuclear armament that can be trasported over thousands of kilometers using even the advancing drone and rockets technology to their sovereign foes.

I fear for the world's 7billion people.

Iraq was actually a US Ally!

Iran was supported by Russia while US & NATO supported Iraq during the Iran Vs Iraq war.

*singing durella's song** have been Patiently waiting. . . . . .

gtrust:

Iraq was actually a US Ally!

Iran was supported by Russia while US & NATO supported Iraq during the Iran Vs Iraq war.

^^^


He's not talking about Iran vs Iraq war.

He is talking about U.S.A. Invasion of Iraq on the propaganda that Saddam was running a nuclear program, which was 100% false.

The question being, is Iraq and others better after US invasion ?

You know the correct answer is NO.




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Syria is a mess already, things will get worse with or without America's intervention. A hundred thousand dead and 1500 dead from sarin gas in a few seconds. America should stay out of the war. Apparently their desire to rid the world of wickedness and inhumanity is no longer appealing to everyone else. America leave the world as it is, free for all! Only defend yourselves. RIP to the millions of women and children that will die from sarin gas. The UN is terribly slow and impotent! If we wait for them we will never know who used the gas.