Published: April 18, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Crossfire War: Iran Top Envoy Says Iran is Ready for War
By Willard Payne
Crossfire War - TEHRAN WATCH - Eurasia Theatre: Moscow/Tehran; Iran Top Envoy States Iran is Ready for War - Six Governments Meet in Moscow - Talks Private
Night Watch: MOSCOW - AFP reports that Monday night Tehran's top enoy to Moscow announced Iran was ready for war over its nuclear program. [
Turkish Press]
Today, Tuesday, representatives of six governments are meeting in Moscow with no publicly stated agenda for the discussions. The representatives are the EU-3, (London-Paris-Berlin) and Washington-Moscow-Beijing. The American representative said that they were still intending to use the UN Security Council as their main vehicle for confronting Iran but that was obviously just something to say to keep down the sense of emergency and alarm.
The six reprentatives may actually know that what Iran's enoy really meant was that Tehran is looking forward to war, actually planned it. Therefore these private talks, what officials called a working dinner, could in reality be the beginnings of some serious discussion on what each of their governments should do when the shooting starts.
A worried dinner would have been a more accurate way to describe it, especially since only Beijing will benefit from Tehran defeating the other five, which are by no means ready for all out fighting anywhere. Whatever was discussed Beijing will definitely keep Tehran informed since China and Iran have divided up Central Asia's economic future between them. That is a result of Beijing having been a major supplier of nuclear and missile technology to the Islamic world knowing the Jihad would weaken China's rivals, the West-India-Russia.
Beijing's strategic and deliberate partnership with the Islamic world, especially Iran, is probably the only topic of discussion between U. S. President George W. Bush and China President Hu Jintao. Washington does not even describe Hu's visit as a State occasion, but however it is characterized I can't imagine currency issues are the reason for the confrontation.
I suspect that the other five capitals, London-Paris-Washington-Berlin-Moscow, will maintain serious non-stop working sessions on how to improve the supply and equipment situation of Russia's military, knowing that the deciding front is between Moscow and Tehran, the Caucasus and Central Asia. I estimate it will take another year for Russia to be able to respond more offensively to the ongoing combat in the Caucasus and in case fighting resumes in and around Tajikistan where Moscow has maintained an extremely important base, that can track high orbital objects like Iran's satellites.
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