Russia: Iran no missile threat
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Iran poses no threat to Russia, top diplomats and military officials said Thursday as Moscow pressed its argument for the United States to abandon plans for a missile defense system in Europe.
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Russia cast new doubt on the prospects for efforts to punish Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear program.
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Russia has nothing to fear from a  planned U.S. anti-missile system in central Europe, NATO  Supreme Allied Commander John Craddock said on Friday.
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Russia's foreign minister made clear ahead of high-level talks Friday on Iran's nuclear program that Moscow wants to see a U.N. agency report on Tehran's past suspicious nuclear work before considering new sanctions.
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Russia announced on Monday it had delivered the first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr atomic power station, a step Western powers worried by Tehran's nuclear ambitions had urged Moscow not to take.
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Iran has met its commitments to Russia  over building the Islamic Republic&#39;s first nuclear power plant  and is ready to go beyond those commitments to assist the work,  an Iranian official said on Sunday.
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President Vladimir V. Putin suggested that Russia would not object to American interceptor missiles in Iraq, Turkey or at sea.
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Iran said nuclear missiles are not a part of its defense policies and that such weapons &quot;could not be hidden in today&#39;s world&quot;, one day before it was to suspend nuclear enrichment activities as part of an agreement it reached with
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov  reiterated on Thursday that his country opposed sanctions  against Iran over its nuclear program ahead of a meeting of  major powers in London this week.
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Germany said on Wednesday Iran could not   be allowed to harm the United Nations by pursuing its nuclear   programme, but Russia said any economic sanctions must rule out   the use of force against the Islamic Republic.
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Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran over its nuclear program had largely met Moscow's concerns and could become the basis of a consensus decision.
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The federal agency overseeing Russia's military exports on Friday denied reports that the country is planning to deliver a powerful new anti-aircraft missile system to Iran.
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Russia said Wednesday a new draft U.N. resolution on Iran's disputed nuclear program does not call for any harsh sanctions, and the Iranian president said new measures would not deter the country in its pursuit of nuclear technology.
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Russia is against reporting Iran to the United Nations Security Council for what the United States and some other countries say are breaches of U.N. nuclear rules, a top Kremlin official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Iran said Sunday it had received indications from Russia's president that he would not follow through with an offer to allow the U.S. to use a radar station in neighboring Azerbaijan for missile defense against Tehran.
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Russia and Iran said Thursday they had  finished construction of an atomic power plant in the Islamic  Republic -- a project the United States fears Tehran could use  to make nuclear arms.
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Russia says relations with the UK have not been damaged by the Alexander Litvinenko case.