The Iranian people don't know whether the Russian officials are our friends or are after something else.

 

May 27, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The Iranian President while on a visit to southern Kerman Province on Wednesday criticized Russia for its stance against Tehran nuclear agreement reached nearly two weeks ago. Ahmadinejad reminded Moscow not to become an enemy of the Iranian nation. 

 

‘Russian leaders should not create a situation that makes Iranian people place Russia in the ranks of their historic enemies,’ said Ahmadinejad.  ‘Today, it has become difficult for us to explain Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's behavior to the Iranian nation. The Iranian people don't know whether the Russian officials are our friends or are after something else,’ he added.

Ahmadinjead’s response was in reaction to Moscow’s recent tactical short-term maneuver in the form of a decision that supports a US-proposed Security Council resolution against Iran. It has been in Russia’s interests in recent years to keep a steady level of tensions ongoing concerning Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, so it could barter broader short-term dealings with Western powers particularly the United States.

Moscow, aware that oil-dependent US-led Western economies have reached the pick-oil era, often plays this kind of bargaining strategy with the West in the form of a marriage of convenience to its own political advantage.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also warned the U.S. not to miss this last opportunity offered by the Tehran nuclear swap declaration. He said the declaration brokered by Turkey and Brazil could be the last chance to get things right.