This May Help Change Putin's Mind-Iran Training Chechen Rebels

[Annie]

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Teheran 'secretly trains' Chechens to fight in Russia
Con Coughlin
(Filed: 27/11/2005)

Iran is secretly training Chechen rebels in sophisticated terror techniques to enable them to carry out more effective attacks against Russian forces, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Teams of Chechen fighters are being trained at the Revolutionary Guards' Imam Ali training camp, located close to Tajrish Square in Teheran, according to Western intelligence reports.

In addition to receiving training in the latest terror techniques, the Chechen volunteers undergo ideological and political instruction by hardline Iranian mullahs at Qom.

The disclosure that Iran is training Chechen rebels will not go down well in Moscow, which regards itself as a close ally of the Iranian regime.

Russia has sided with Iran in the diplomatic stand-off over Teheran's controversial nuclear programme.


While the British and American governments have accused Iran of having a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, the Russians, who are building Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, back Teheran's claim that their nuclear intentions are solely peaceful.

Moscow has offered a face-saving formula to prevent Iran from being reported to the United Nations Security Council for its failure to co-operate fully with UN nuclear inspection teams.

Under the terms of the deal, the Russians would oversee Iran's nuclear enrichment activities to ensure that only partially enriched uranium, which is not of weapons grade, is produced.

At this weekend's meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, America and Britain gave their qualified backing to the Russian proposal in the hope that it might resolve the crisis in the agency's dealings with Teheran.

But the Iranians are growing increasingly suspicious of Moscow's intentions, and it is for this reason that Western intelligence officials believe that Iran's hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has sanctioned the training of Chechen fighters in Teheran.

"Just as they have orchestrated attacks against British troops in Basra to pressure Britain to drop its opposition to Iran's nuclear programme, so they are trying to put pressure on Moscow by backing Chechen fighters," said a senior intelligence official.

 

[Psychoblues]

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Admit it, Kathy, you know little about Putin, the Russian dilemma, or Chechnya. Your post is only designed to increase your post count and possibly your rep count. I wouldn'd be surprised at either.

Putin, and even many common Americans have been aware of Iranian intervention into Chechnyan politics for years. It's been widely reported and openly discussed in many venues. Maybe you just didn't get the memo.

The originators of the article you link also hope for such mindless and uninformed respect.

Psychoblues

 

[ekrem]

We have to be carefull here as we dont know these western intelligence informations. And we should not underestimate Russian intelligence. I think Russians know very good who is financing, equipping chechen terrorists.
Even if Iran should assist those anti-russian terrorists, which would be a dumb move, Russia would not cancel its support for IRAN. Here it has to do with geo-strategy. And iran is important for Russia and china to balance and stop american influence in the oil-rich Mid-East.

When you look into the trade figures of Russia-Iran Relations. The amount of trade between two is not big. Even Turkey does more trade with Russia than Iran does with Russia. So It is not an economic-based backing by Russia for Iran, but geostrategy. Not only because Iran with 1,6 mio km2 is the biggest country in Mid-East.

On this situation even some financed anti-Russian terrorists by Iran will not changfe anything. Russians will only stop support for Iran by big concessions and $ made by USA to Russia. And not some western intelligence reports will make Russia stop Iran backing.