If this is true - and it is only an if, then so what? Did the Israelis get any scientific assistance in constructing their atomic weapons? Rather than try to blame everyone in sight, maybe the Israelis should instead concentrating on truly making peace in their region. I am convinced that a verifiable disarmament of all countries in the region, along with the Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories and back to its pre-June 1967 borders, then there would the substance for real progress. Otherwise, why is Israel allowed the atomic bomb and not Iran?

Good grief, was Netanyahu trying to threaten the Russians? "Do things our way or we will tell stories about you" ??? If it was back in the 1990s, then anything is possible. Nobody was getting paid in Russia. In the USA we were hearing stories in the mainstream news about our government trying to entice Russian engineers with fat paychecks, hoping they would not sell plans and materials on the open market to just anybody. This sounds like agitprop from the Mossad. If they don't have anything recent, then it is a bit lame.

It puzzles me to no end that end 1976 where was the outrage when France, helped Israel not only build their nuclear power plant, but gave them 100 nuclear bombs. Where is the outrage, from French citizens of goodwill? Why the hypocrisy from the West? Why the lies from Israel? Ernst David Bergmann, of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, always advocated an Israeli bomb., saying "that we shall never again be led as lambs to slaughter." In 1956 France agreed to provide Israel whith a 18MWt research reactor. In 1957 thaey signed an agreement for a 24MWt plant. The plant at Dimona,(Negev desert) was constructed outside IAEA inspection regime. Preseident De Galle pressured Israel to make the plant public. However, Israel made a deal with France, that Israel could continue construction and get materials from France, if they didn't make an atomic weapon and wouldn't reprocess plutonium. In 1958 the US knew the plant existed from recon flights of its U-2 plane over Dimona. For 20 years of US neglect and failed concern, the CIA in a report established that the Israeli nuclear waepons program was a fact and irreversible. Though the US didn't give agreement to the program, America knew about it but did nothing to stop it. In 1968 the CIA reported the Israelis started production of its nuclear weapons. This based on a conversation of then CIA officer Carl Duckett and Edward Teller, hydrogen bomb creator. In 1967 Israel had two nukes. PM Eshkol, ordered them armed during the 6 day war, and during thre '73 Yom Kippur war, Israel assembled 13/ 20 kiloton bombs. We all remember the disgruntle nuclear technician ,Mordechai Vanunu. This information revealed that Israel has 100 to 200. By 1990's the estimates are 400 nukes of various types. Missles launch (Jericho-1 and 2) aircraft bombers and tactical nukes. So how dare the US and Israelis cry foul against the Iranains, yet the Israelis have for more than 30 years held hostage the whole of the ME.

Like every other claim by Israeli officials, the allegation that Russian scientists "helped Iran build a nuclear bomb" is complete nonsense. No country in the world is so arrogant (with the possible exception of the United States) as to make utterly baseless accusations against innocent countries and expect the world to believe. The policy of shameless lies has been in place since Israel's inception and will not abate.

Interesting but I don't see why Russia would help Iran build an Atomic bomb what would they gain from it? I understand why they would help Iran build a nuclear power plant so they can use it to power the countries domestic energy so they can export there oil and gas and Russia would have almost exclusive market in Iranian arms an equivalent of what Saudi Arabia is to the US and Britain.

Does Israel really have nuclear weapons or do they just want other countries of the middle east to think that they have them? The deterrent value is about the same, so long as the other side believes that you have them. I don't know of any weapon ever developed that didn't eventially get used against oposing people. It would be nice if we could put the jenie back in the bottle. Unfortunately, looks like more and more countries want the jenie for their own..