Saudis offer Moscow billions to break with Tehran: report

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Posted by John under: Perplexity,Root of All Evil
  • Source: Yahoo
  • News Date: 7/15/08

MOSCOW (AFP) – Saudi Arabia has offered to buy Russian arms worth 2.4 billion dollars (1.5 billion euros) if Moscow stops supporting Iran, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday, citing diplomatic sources.

Perplexity

“…upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity…”
—Luke 21:25

Root of All Evil

“For the love of money is the root of all evi:…..”
—1 Timothy 6:10a

“The kingdom’s government advised Moscow to cut back its cooperation with Tehran, and in exchange it held out the prospect of profitable contracts with Saudi Arabia,” the daily business newspaper Kommersant wrote.

A spokesman for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denied the report.

“Any claims that military-technical cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia is in any way linked to Russian-Iranian dialogue are inappropriate and do not correspond to reality,” the Interfax news agency quoted Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.

The newspaper report came one day after Putin met with the general secretary of Saudi Arabia’s Security Council, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

Citing sources in Russia’s defence industry, the newspaper said Saudi Arabia was ready to buy at least 100 BMP-3 combat vehicles, 150 T-90 tanks and 160 Mi-17, Mi-26 and Mi-35 helicopters.

Kommersant put the total value of the equipment at about 2.4 billion dollars.

Moscow has opposed stiffer international sanctions on Iran for its nuclear programme, which Tehran says is civilian in nature.

Relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia — a traditional US ally — have warmed considerably in recent years.

2 Comments

Linda says Comment posted on July 17th, 2008

If this is accurate, things could really start to heat up, so be sure to look up!

Lance Gilman says Comment posted on July 17th, 2008

Billions of our money from oil…

Billions of our money to the Chinese for shoes, clothing,
and everything else.

Whatever happened to made in America?
Seriously what do we make anymore?
We grow some food.

We’ve made the world rich…

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