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“Russian arms encourage Iranians to take the America’s challenge”

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Published 18 March, 2009, 17:40

The US has no direct reins to influence Russia’s arms sales to Iran simply because Russia does not sell any weapons to the lucrative American market.

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So they look for a different tool of influence and bluntly link these sales to Iranian nuclear programme, explains expert Ruslan Pukhov from the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

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