regional bet it has vetoed the shipment of last three hundred missiles and other weapons to iran the measure was put in place after the recent u.n. general assembly session experts say russia was not the blinds to impose these sanctions as the un has accepted there is nothing about air defense systems in the resolution now iran may review the position of allowing moscow to enrich uranium for its nuclear program some analysts say criticism from moscow is especially harmful for to run as it has always seen russians as allies but in this aspect russia is still less vigorous than the united states the e.u. and some other countries with stricter sanctions. thank you very much for coming to. the u.n. resolution in point opposing sanctions on iran's past if i'm not mistaken in g nine so john you know i think you know russia has suspended the arms contracts only now

why what happened in the meantime what made russia. tightness stance on iran well first i would disagree with your previous description of that russia has made a u. turn in its approach towards iran this is not true frankly speaking according to my interpretation of the situation we have always been concerned about the iranian nuclear program because iran is a country as a state under its current leadership is not. convenient is not a transparent portal for russia sometimes we try to convince iran to behave in a different way sometimes we try to propose to iran some alternatives how to behave in order to preserve its civil nuclear program but not to come into confrontation with the international community and almost each time we. do not get support for

these ideas from tehran and unfortunately the questions we transmit to iran on behalf of. on behalf of the security council in a bilateral manner do not receive proper answers and this is why we are concerned this is why we have supported the previous four resolutions on iran passed by the security council since two thousand and six as far as i remember and this is why we have supported the latest resolution from the ninth of june of this is a constituent policy of russia. increasing pressure on iran but not letting this pressure go to come over to any violent actions like use of military force or anything like that though this is our consistent position and we stick to that position number two each resolution or for the security council is not regular lore to be implemented in

a member state of the united nations each resolution needs further legal decisions either by the parliament of in any country or by the political leadership in our case by by the president the resolution passed by the security council on the ninth of july is a very technically very complicated document it consists of i believe eighteen pages i have it here it consists of thirty eight paragraphs describing how the future sanctions would look like or what what areas they they cover and so on and so forth and of course all. our experts had to take their time in order to prepare legally a constraint and. strong enough document in order to be in compliance with the security council resolution so we have not wasted our time and the decree by the president is in compliance with the reason lucian one hundred percent but still

we have information that iran is planning to to file a lawsuit against russia for refusing to fulfill its obligations what are the chances for iran to find a muscle well the behavior of your own was rather predictable because here we have a clear case of a commercial contract found in each case we have a commercial contract contra there should be a paragraph. describing how the parts would solve an error or resolve any possible conflicts or disputes i don't know how these specific contract specifies that their way of resolving conflicts maybe it was still called british and maybe it was some other every three but in any case iran has its right to to to to to to well to demand some compensations for the contract which has not been fulfilled the amount of money of each russian i stress russia loses on this not fulfilled

contract is after one billion dollars it's a very big amount of money and in case iran will be in the air but ration procedure i believe that of the losses of russia may may may increase one but only one billion dollars i have another nation that it's up to eleven billion us dollars no no this isn't press well no this is not true it's a little bit less than one billion dollars but it's still very big amount is huge money especially for russian military industrial complex it has to be compensated somehow by by the russian state and i believe that will be done the industry over russia will not suffer out of it but if we speak about a global perspective i believe that any. current or possible losses of russia commercial losses should not prevail over the political losses in case or damages

in case we are not in line with the nonproliferation regime leaders in line with our commitments and obligations to the security council and to the united nations this is much more important let's talk about political losses russia seems to be losing its special influence over iraq this is one of the one of the cards that russia played in the in the group of six when it went when it said we have special relations with terror and we can we can like drive the situation all losing our influence number one again i would like to repeat that years we have had some special relations with iran but we did not enjoy it we have never enjoyed the special influence over iran iran has never been a comfortable partner for us so this is number one and number two i do not believe that iran will just say thank you very much we are not have to visit russia's behavior and this is how we leave russia is all part of this will not happen

because iran is. isolated on the international arena iran does not have many of friends in the world and they believe that russia is still a friend of iran it's a friend of iranian people it's a friend of iran as a country definitely and this is why we oppose any further decisions like using military force against iran because we believe that that would be a disaster yes there are questions towards the iranian nuclear program but that does not mean we are absolutely convinced that iran while it's its obligations according to the nonproliferation treaty while the united states and their allies in nato sometimes are much more convinced than that and we know that united states and their allies sometimes make mistakes while being. much convinced on certain relations of international law in case of iraq really we know what happened well let's take a look at the history of russian irena relations and report there by spotlight on

the jimmy that. the construction of the bush era nuclear power plant in iran was started by the germans in the mid nineteen seventies however the nineteen seventy nine revolution and the iran iraq war forced them out of the tour beyond two region in one thousand nine to five russia stepped in while supervising the construction of the blue share plant it faced technical and financial challenges as well as political pressure at some point the u.s. and other western countries grew suspicious believe in iran could use its nuclear program to make weapons russia for years defended iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy meanwhile take a ranch reluctant cooperation with the international atomic energy agency only added to the international mistrust the issue good ever more pressing when president obama digit came to power. in two thousand and six the un security

council impose sanctions on iran for a long time russia was against aggressive measures and sought a purely diplomatic solution this year moscow has finally taken a tougher stance on iran and joined the new un sanctions at the same time russia never withdrew from the bush era project the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been operated by tehran and moscow's joint venture since august several days ago they came another sign of when relations between russia and iran moscow halted deliveries of s. three hundred missile systems to tehran. iran criticised russia's decision accusing moscow for in too much under american influence some experts believe the ban is part of the due. between moscow and washington to read to pick up the new start treaty. is the question of iran's defense minister implied i quote

that the decision russia's decision was made under pressure from the third countries and questioned the independence of russian foreign policy and quote this is a this is a very very interesting proposition from from the iranian side. do you think that russia may get something in exchange from those third party third countries after it's imposed the sentiency in syria will number one i do not agree with these positions of the minister of defense saying i don't you wouldn't. i believe that russia is independent actor in this situation russia has all of this played a very significant role in discussions on iran and russia does still play an independent role in this aspect and nobody can. set pressure on russia because these relations with iran are too important for russia we do not

want to spoil to damage these relations and we believe that these bilateral relations between iran and russia are much stronger than these episodes about. three hundred and and number two i think that. you know this is not about us trying to earn some more money a sound where else to get something else has an exchange of war you turn on the position on iran this is not the case we do lose our money here i am absolutely sure that this money will not become prince eight anyhow by any other partner of russia unfortunately i would have been happy if we both did but this is not the case by their decision we just demonstrated that we have. what a biggish unsent commitments and we exceeded respect of the subjugation sent commitments says chairman of the state duma international affairs committee comes to such off we will be back in less than

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welcome back to spotlight on maldonado and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is constantin chairman of the state duma international affairs committee mr such as you said you have the text of the resolution of the u.n. resolution right in front of you so can you explain to us well one of the russian newspapers coming sunday the rights that the u.n. resolution i quote doesn't ban the delivery of surface to air missiles to iraq while the russian leadership has another view upon this resolution so do the ass three hundred which are surface to air missiles do they curse pond. do they fall under this resolution or not well. this is i believe the most important question and of course it will be taken into account while the stock or

any other between with it will deal with the possible claim from iran there is aleutian as i mentioned is a very technically complicated document but still there is a certain paragraph number eight which describes the situation of these weapon deliveries to iran and it consists of are two parts the spirit of number eight per part number one describes certain weapons that are different for this purpose of the united nations register on conventional arms which are directly banned by the security council resolution for the deliveries to iran battle tanks. a large caliber. artillery attack helicopters warships and so on and so force s. three hundred is not mention space. on these on this is not a product or as a type there's a broad that is a product as a product but still there is

a second part of this paragraph number eight and that they would like to cited that the security council coast appoint all states to exercise. and restraint over the supply sale transfer provision manufacture and use of all our their arms and related material all our their arms and they believe that russia as a responsible member of the international community should demonstrate who region lives and restraint in this case because yes we are concerned about certain aspects of the iranian nuclear program we are concerned about the lack of communications lead of good. relation between iran and international agency on nuclear energy and yes we still have unanswered questions and this is how i believe no no weapons where the it is mentioned specifically here or not mentioned specifically

here should not be delivered to iran from russia under the current existing circumstances and it mystical feature of s. three hundred is a defensive weapon it's an anti-aircraft missile so iran as we understand is pretty vulnerable today. and it is being threatened in what's being threatened by direct threats from israel there were threats from certain american politicians does the absence of the russian s. three hundred surface to air missiles make iran more vulnerable today says does it make does it make an easier it at these it target for a possible attack syria to kill a yes but in practical terms no because the most important part of the russian position right now in the rain in context. is to prevent any use of military force or threat of using military force towards syria so the real target is to reach iran

has right now is either to continue its program and similar tenuously to strengthen its defensive potential in order to protect itself against any possible military syria this is alternative number one but as durative number two which is much more logical which is much easier which is much closer is to start good cooperation with the international community in order to eliminate any risks of being attacked and this is the choice which we hope iran will sooner or later make but which is the which is does not make now unfortunately a little continue to protect the iran in terms of preventing the use of military force against this country but we will continue to set pressure on iran in terms of this resolution in terms of economic sanctions financial sanctions sanctions which are applied to some certain physical people people in the organisations and by

they're hoping to do a little convince iran that could be reading with the international community is much better much wiser then to oppose the international community trying to convince them that iran has certain rights. there is another information from iran and it concerns the the cyberattack it says that the iran's nuclear facilities recently have been undecided britax and some in the rand believe that this this is a cyber attack from russia that this kind of a huge mess of achan ele be exercised by a state not by an individual can easily think concerning that have you heard of that and what's your comment yes i've heard about that and i seeing that the sister . or the international system of iran against the cyber attacks is much weaker than it is in many other countries this is also

a very tight technology. situation and iran unfortunately is not in the position of protecting itself efficiently against cyber attacks this is number one number two i do not see any reasons of for russia specifically for russia to to to exercise of this type of cyber attacks against iran this is just stupid to blame russia for that we cannot reach anywhere we cannot gain in any purpose out of four out of this project so i absolutely exclude that russia could could have participated as a state or in any other capacity in these type of attacks against you know this is not possible since will will this sanction that russia that russia signed now will that somehow affect russia's cooperation with iran on another huge nuclear project which is the nuclear power station and bush area no there is no direct linkage

between these two stories. the previous years let's say ten or fifteen years ago the united states certain countries in western europe tried to blame russia for having this is a run on bushehr there's potential. contribution to the iranian. military nuclear program this is not the case in technical terms the bush era reactor is a so-called light water reactor you can not use waste from the reactor in order to produce to enrich uranium to produce nuclear weapons you need to have a completely different type of reactors heavy water reactors which is not the case we will share this is absolutely clear for any expert. this is no good enough clear for the united states for for for nato countries for it is anybody else nobody creates any problem of out of russian kookery russian the region called the region

on bushehr further on may probably we will have another contract with iran on same type of. nuclear reactors and they are acknowledged their recognised by. eight as absolutely compatible with the nonproliferation regime. in other quotes i have noticed that you don't really like what the rain in defense minister says. just to be provocative i'll continue quoting at another quote from the iranian defense minister concerning the sanctions situation this russia's action makes russia quote an unreliable partner not deserving trust in the future well first of all is moscow sorry to have lost the rein in arms market and do you believe that this is really a loss of face for the russian arms dealers number one we are not in that situation yet and they hope that we will not come to that situation we have not lost the

iranian market on weapons or anything else we have problems on a certain contract vis eat and then the iranian authorities may make these or that choice but the heirs crissy hundred situation does not mean anything else this is three hundred situation and nothing else so what you want to say is that the russian iranian arms rate is much bigger than the s. three hundred well because it is much bigger in certain cases when we have let's see light weapons. rifles or things like there are some weapons to be used by physical persons while why you know this is nothing strategic this is nothing change the the balance does not affect the. offense. for the defense of potential off iran and again number two when the minister of defense of iraq is all my respect to him blames russia for being

a reliable partner i believe that they should start from the something else and i believe that iran has behaved as an unreliable partner each time we proposed certain solutions for the nuclear program of iran like the enrichment center in anbar sc like some other solutions which were absolutely rejected by iran which were never supported by. this sure it is for this country and which. russia the previous times in a very difficult situation and i am very sort of that iran did not use this unique opportunity of having russia is a real partner of iraq thank you thank you very much for being with meet with us mr carson chairman just a reminder that my guest today was the chairman of the state duma international affairs committee and that's it for now from all of us here if you would have your sense spotlight just drop me a line would be that with more first hand comment on was kneeling on n.

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worldwide news twenty four seven this is. after almost two decades. by the president dmitri he had lost confidence in the capital's controversial top official. there have been no reactions from him and he had said that he was not going to give. any time soon so we won't be hearing from him personally and the latest development that we've heard is that he will also be leaving to russia party and that is the ruling party here russia that is of course on top of the fact that he has been barred by the president so these are really two major blow sue his political career.