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Author Freedman, Robert O

Title Russia, Iran and the nuclear question : the Putin record / Robert O. Freedman
Published [Washington, D.C.] : Strategic Studies Institute, [2006]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 54 pages)
Series U.S. and Russia, regional security issues and interests
U.S. and Russia, regional security issues and interests
Contents Putin's domestic and foreign policies -- Russia and Iran: the Yeltsin legacy -- Putin and Iran
Summary Vladimir Putin inherited a strong Russian-Iranian relationship from his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. Russia made major arms agreements with Iran under Yeltsin, selling Tehran jet planes, tanks, and submarines, and also began building a nuclear reactor for Iran at Bushehr. The two countries also cooperated on regional issues such as Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and Yeltsin valued the low Iranian profile during the first Chechen war (1994-96). Putin strengthened the relationship further, beginning his rule by abrogating the Gore-Chenonymdin agreement under which Russia was to cease selling arms to Iran by 2000. While Putin and Iran were to have some problems over Chechnya and the optimal exit route for Caspian Sea oil and natural gas, these were overcome in 2005 when Iran emerged -- despite its clandestine nuclear program -- as Putin's most important ally in the Middle East, as Russia sought to reemerge as a major power there. Moscow increasingly became Iran's protector against the sanctions that first the United States and then European Union sought to impose because of Iran's violation of international agreements. Putin's policy on Iran, however, contained some serious risks for Moscow, including a sharply deteriorating relationship with the United States and the possibility that newly-elected Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, an Islamic fundamentalist, might one day challenge Russia over its policy in Chechnya
Notes Title from title screen (viewed on January 17, 2007)
"November 2006."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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SUBJECT Poutine, Vladimir Vladimirovitch, (1952- ...) ram
Subject Nuclear weapons -- Russia
Nuclear weapons -- Iran
Nuclear weapons.
Kernwapenpolitiek.
Armes nucléaires.
Iran.
Russia.
Rusland.
Iran.
Russie -- Relations extérieures -- Iran.
Iran -- Relations extérieures -- Russie.
Russie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1991- ...
Russia -- foreign policy -- Iran.
Iran -- nuclear weapons.
Form Electronic book
Author Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN 158487256X
9781584872566