RUSSIA GERMANY IRAN G-8 & CHENEY

London correspondent George Conger (jpost 6 June) reports that “Russia has ruled out the use of force against Iran if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime rejects proposals that it end its nuclear enrichment program”: corroborated by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to both the Novosti News Agency and Moscow’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
This report reflects a London Times/AP Teheran report (May 29) citing Russia’s security council head, Igor Ivanov, who told Iranian television “that his country opposes any use of force against Iran over its controversial nuclear program”.
Russia’s unrelenting support for the Iranian Fascist dictatorship is reminiscent of the well documented support given by Stalin and Molotov to The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler and his Nazi dictatorship, up to and beyond 22 June 1941!
During the nocturnal negotiations of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (23-24 August 1939) Stalin voiced the sentiment “that it was of considerable advantage to have a strong Germany as neighbor and in case of armed showdown with the bourgeois democracies the interests of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany would run parallel to each other and Russia would never stand for Hitler’s Germany getting into a difficult position”. The ceremony ended with Stalin’s personal toast “to the long life of the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler”!
In view of the World’s bitter experience with the performance of previous Russian diplomatic ‘expertise’; next month’s G- 8 summit (scheduled to convene in St. Petersburg under Russian auspices) would seem an ideal venue to demand a thorough vetting of Russian strategy towards the threat posed by Iran; because Russia’s current stance once again signals (as detected by Vice-President Cheney) a departure from its revolutionary doctrine of 'peace now'!