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is not acting in the best way that band would have said at a recent meeting with russian diplomats after joining the un. to show openness and cooperate with the international atomic energy agency what's making russia increasingly suspicious about iran's nuclear intentions are the relations between moscow and terror in freefall will be talking about it with the russian ambassador to. iran has been trying to reassure indian despite most of the world's skepticism and fears says it needs the radioactive fuel for its nuclear power stations but the world fears the islamic state is for peaceful nuclear energy but an atom bomb as if to confirm iran's not allowing the international monitors into the country this has forced the u.n. security council. to impose sanctions against iran russia has long been trying to

build bridges between iran and the west but ave nuclear is enough to undermine those bridges we're asking alexander. the russian ambassador to iraq. is nothing special in question hello mr dudley given thank you for coming to our program. we're going to talk about iran's nuclear program today probably and the main problem here is that it's not clear whether or not there are nuclear weapons in iran. as the invested to this country would you say that iran's nuclear program is a real threat for anyone. and this has been an issue for several years already just because and we don't have a definite answer to this question at this point. of

course we can say for sure that iran has a bomb or he's ready to make it here. and we can only base our judgment on the information and data gathered by the international atomic energy agency here mighty ali because the resolutions did the i.a.e.a. board of governors the dogs after carefully examining the situation. by the way i'd like to say that a border is the only competent international agency on this issue. anyway even if there is aleutians that it dogs and become the basis of good for our own judgments and new un security council's resolutions from the regarding iran's nuclear program of the. end we cannot use any other sources any other

opiates nor any other decisions yet being in march to draw a definite conclusion about what steere and what's not true that it is important for us to know why they and we sure are a team she what's the purpose of this enrichment. what is the quantity of unreached uranium nowhere there iran needs doing to reach such a high degree if we don't need to short peaceful purposes you're a big deal it's of some suspect that duran is pursuing nuclear research this year in order to produce those who are to be able to produce nuclear weapons. of course there's what ten chillis growing your honor if you know but it's not clear if the holiday will use it or not i assure you of course arrange. that they have any intention of creating an atomic bomb. they say. their nuclear program is

totally peaceful and still however it's just not about them it's their lack of desire for a more constructive dialogue they're insecure and usually they're on the willingness to discuss the issue at an appropriate level that is when the six nations which only strengthens our concerns their chances. and usual i knew of course we want to see dialogue and in fact the united nations security council resolutions. problem should be resolved through diplomatic. negotiations were produced without the use of force but paperweight you could push by the way is not allowed by the u.n. charter. let's take a look at the history of iran's nuclear program and report by spotlights to me the . iranian nuclear program started in the end in sixty's ironically with the help of

the united states it was meant for peaceful purposes and the west continued supporting the program until one thousand nine hundred seventy nine revolution group hardline islamic regime to power the program was done suspended only to be revived in the one nine hundred ninety s. they stein iran had the support of russia which has helped iran build a power plant in who share the u.s. and other western countries have gone suspicious believing the iran could use its nuclear program to make weapons its reluctant cooperation with the international atomic energy agency and it to western mistrust they should good christian when president ahmadinejad's came to power in iran in two thousand and six the un security council imposed sanctions on iran for a long time and russia was against the measures. magic solution it was not supposed to now russia and china much agree. creation needs to be put on iran the

international consensus on toughest sanctions was now open not supported by turkey and brazil which negotiated them room to exchange killed around the dusty iran's nuclear program remains an extremely disturbing and liberating the shoe even though most school has taken a tougher stance on iran it is constantly iran openness and cooperation with international institutions. you've mentioned that iran denies any intention to produce nuclear weapons so why aren't they being more open about this so that they can see if the peaceful nature of their nuclear program will shock of step with of the cause that's you know in the arenas are not against inspections but they claim they are you inspectors already have access to all nuclear facilities. this thing is because

nobody has ever proved this to be wrong. that's why when you put the experts to be able to discuss the ship discuss older concerns and get old and necessary data of who i am achieve better transparency of who it is really important that we mean with teacher ran and talks you know why do you mean for months that's why the russian president when he was addressing the russian ambassador or russian diplomats at a russian foreign ministry a few days ago emphasized that we need just start these stocks up and as soon as possible in order to remove those concerns at least we hope they will remove them. and here and now is how president medvedev formulated russia's position on it. controversial nuclear program. we should

step back from simplified approaches to dealing with this problem it's all good is that iran is closer to developing the potential to make a nuclear weapon acquiring such potential is not prohibited by the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and this goes to is one of the problems but this is a systematic problem which has to do with imperfections in the current one proliferation regime therefore approaches to individual countries and to dealing with this particular issue should not be selective but should be common ones who repeatedly told our american and european partners that sanctions as a rule do not produce desirable effects but they send the signal from the international community which should encourage negotiations what we need now is patience and a speedy resumption of talks with iran this is the main meaning of the new u.n. resolution and if diplomats miss jones it will be our common failure we shouldn't forget however that iran's own behavior is far from perfect we call in tehran to practice openness and a necessary level of cooperation with the i. resigned

russian diplomats of always believed that sanctions never work sanctions never helped make progress in fact u.s. diplomats think so as well yet the u.s. government introduced sanctions. eventually agreed with the sanctions so why did moscow reconciliation position was a diplomatic necessity to call decision. we have consistently participated in the sanctions policy that has been pursued with respect to iran for a number of years now. indeed this policy failed to produce a solution that would remove this problem entirely. but you see. the sanctions are more political. nasa edge to iran.

the issue of nuclear nonproliferation and the unacceptability of any activities that may result hypothetically in iran having nuclear weapons but he course all these issues are crucial to us. and that's the message that we want just santa. is someone that you can choose because there are at least ten countries around the world but that are on the threshold of having nuclear weapons that he's there on the meter so he's bottled if this process starts in one country that this may create serious problems for a global security wishing studios and probably was new and i wouldn't see that the arena of kids are gone recolor refused to talk about it so basically it's the question of these talks should be conducted and what the terms are. medium of film

and that's why by the way we don't think it would be wise to make demands on iran before the talks start up within that show it to go on it is crucial to get the negotiation started with him that he believes it is important to engage iran in a frank and jamie in the discussion that's what is crucial at the ocean waters says alexander said dubnyk of russian ambassador to iraq spoke like the movie back shortly right al to break so stay with us we'll continue in less than a minute. wealthy british style. expert on guys.

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russian ambassador to terror. because many countries in this region have nuclear weapons thank you stone that india and israel will have nuclear weapons and everybody knows about that and these countries don't try to deny it and still nobody gets hysterical about it on the other hand iran doesn't seem to have any nuclear weapons and everyone agrees that it doesn't iran may go nuclear if everybody gets just the first word that comes to mind is double standards he's going to explain this and that should be mixed on but a question about the double standard should rather be addressed to diplomats so father countries not russia right so why. deal of look on your screen well you know it has to do with the fact that certain issues date back to the beginning of the century when some unauthorized undeclared activities with them run by iran and the syria were discovered and they triggered quite an appropriate response

is that both from the i.a.e.a. this club and those countries so we should bear responsibility for global security at the including russia. so russia got involved in the talks which originally were started by three european countries then russia china and the united states joined in and that's how the five plus one form it emerged. you see iran is a large country but surely what i get has a rapidly developing economy. it has a large economic and military ten show and then use. them but you also use the rand is to reach in and natural resources and it has a considerable number of well trained skilled engineers. so if we're to gear it to pursue nuclear program you have every chance to develop

nuclear weapons question. and in this case with them are you considering the tension in this part of the world and iran's active position on the global political arena. but as you know this could become a source of some serious additional tensioners. of course i would do single out garonne isn't unpredictable nation or a nation of those opposing eg grave threat to mankind. these are all exaggerations made by some countries. discussion for instance we have always been against this sanctions proposed by some on top of the united nations sanctions. you mean the us sanctions

yes the latest tougher version of sanctions adopted by the us and already in force they go beyond words needed decision. and they go beyond the u.n. sanctions. that's a unilateral step you off course that's unilateral step in now europe is doing this season. we find new sanctions adopted by europe absolutely unacceptable and in no way supporting the positive trend in resolving the problem over iran's nuclear program and. such measures can prove to be counterproductive because they me trigger in negative reaction. and actually the the sanctions that the united states has imposed against these climate where public are the toughest average is three here is a quote from president barack obama. are ratcheting up the pressure on the

iranian government for its failure to meet its obligations and today we're taking another step a step that demonstrates the broad bipartisan support for holding iran accountable . i'm pleased to sign into law the toughest sanctions against iran ever passed by the united states cars there should be no doubt the united states and the international community are determined to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. aka cover what this one does russia think about the recent mediating efforts by brazil and especially to turkey is getting very active i recently had a meeting with some techs and they told me that they country was getting very actively involved in the mediating mission. what is russia's position here do we support his efforts. to put across as i'm sure you know very well here and in brazil and turkey in talk to these so-called

declaration and may. end we said that we viewed it as a positive development just. means that a new u.n. security council to direct solution in all foreign ministers issue to a joint statement with the commanding brazil and turkey for their contribution and saying that they are on declaration was a positive development. one of the reasons these efforts were helpful was because their objective was to resolve an important side issue related to rense nuclear program namely the issue of providing nuclear fuel for that to run a research reactor. the reactor is used for purely peaceful purposes it produces isotopes for medical and technical purposes.

from the very beginning when this issue first came up last for. we did our best to help resolve this issue. and find a way to supply the tirana reactor with fuel she would you. because we viewed this as an opportunity to create an atmosphere of trust that would then help us resolve the main problem iran's nuclear program. or. that cuban leader fidel castro coming to done the situation a few days ago so it was that that's quite a rare occasion as he hasn't spoken to the public for quite a long time anyway he said washington's policy with respect to iran may escalate tensions in the region and eventually result in an armed conflict he said he wouldn't rule out such a possibility quaestors political weight and the fact that he used one of his rare appearances in public to speak on this subject even though iran is quite far from

cuba all these calls many people to think seriously this situation will do you make of this i'm sure you're full of the situation because you have to report to moscow so how serious is the danger do you think us through is right or easy exaggerating cancer wasn't talking about the threat that iran poses to other nations and he was talking about other nations. so since we are in iran. exactly we are also portentious objects of this threat so you must be on the lookout and so we are and being located into iran we cannot comment over and give assessments as to whether if such a scenario is possible. i mean obvious threat that might come from israel or from the united states and its government what truly matters is that we are firmly opposed to the mere possibility of such a scenario in we will do everything possible to keep anyone from such steps.

whether we can rule it out on knowledge or you can true out anything in this world but the consequences of such a move would be not just tragic it would be. and he's asked are these because everyone understands that iran will defend itself and quite seriously. in this regard we can agree with what fidel said about the possible outcome. but it is hard to tell though whether this danger is real or e.t. is used there's an instrument of political pressure but the very fact of those threats and discussions about possible strikes are not just counterproductive. you know we they encourage iran to take a tougher stance they may quranic more determined to resist and even build up its military. and actually any country no matter what with think of it

where there would skewed our advantage whether it's iran or any other country including russia any country would respond to threats the same way. but what's more important is that there's such a to do such comments make the situation with iran more unstable or i would rather see more unpredictable. so in my opinion this has a negative effect on the situation with iran supports the work we're on the show to mr ambassador there is one more question i have to. this issue has been widely discussed in the media lately after russia supported the un sanctions a group of iranian m.p.'s the coldness government to cool teles with russia what do you think is this issue worth talking about is this an important statement or is

a truly something in significance. was nineteen actually i commented on that in an interview i gave in tehran. you know it's a normal situation in that one and there are always differ. and sometimes opposite viewpoints in any parliament in this case there are several in fees and in fact there are a number has probably grown recently due to rand's emotional response to the un resolution and our decision to support it actually the media and governmental officials in iran did a lot to provoke such a strong reaction among the iranian people. as you mean known iran made some of our statements and we responded to them. but in the end common sense prevailed in the iranian parliament. despite all the criticism despite all those demands to

use. practical people so i think pragmatism and common sense saw strong iranians so we saw eventually did you sided that this situation should not have a long term negative effect on our relations and create problems for the future which probably thank you thank you very much your excellency and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today was alex i'm going to saddam russian ambassador to tad and that's it for the us from all of us here if you want to add your sales spotlight just drop us a lot we'll be back with more first and a comment on what's going on day in and out that russia had to vent stay on and take it.

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