J - again "Russia works against America and the world's best interest time and time again by allowing, selling, and furthering Iran's nuclear ambition which will cause a war within a year when Israel is forced to bomb Iran" Pathetic. Iran is fully entitled to engage in full uranium fuel cycle as per the NPT treaty, including low enrichment. The IAEA has consistently indicated that Iran is in full compliance with its safeguard obligations, ie no diversion of nuclear materials. US and Israeli paranoia is not a reason for Iran to lose her rights to nuclear energy self-sufficiency. Under the Shah, the West was more than happy to sign contracts for provision of nuclear power stations, and to discuss the provision of uranium enrichment facilities, but now that Iran is governed by the Mullahs, the West is suddenly concerned about "proliferation" issues. This points to US duplicity and self-serving realpolitic, just part of the wider US policy of containment, strangulation and destabilization of the Islamic republic. "we were so against Russia we would have let you starved during the cold war than shipping you food supplies during the cold war" You mean the food bought and paid for by the USSR using their scarce hard currency? You consider the commercial sale of agricultural commodities to be an act of good-will, and that the Russians should be grateful? This was a straight-forward commercial deal, not some altruistic act of charity, and it was pressure from US farmers that kept the hands of the politicians off the deals, not any sense of fair-play on the part of Washington.