Iran in talks to join alliance against West

The Times June 16, 2006

From Oliver August in Beijing

MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, held talks with Chinese and Russian leaders at a summit meeting yesterday to build up a security grouping in opposition to the US and Nato.

Mr Ahmadinejad was invited to address a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), a China-sponsored proto-alliance that aims to strengthen defence links across Central Asia.

In an implicit reference to the US and its pressure on Iran to end its nuclear weapons programme, he said that the SCO could “ward off the threats of domineering powers to use their force against and interfere in the affairs of other states”.

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“The main ideological message of this summit is growing anti-Americanism,” the Kommersant daily (a Russian paper) said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2228233,00.html

When * made his inane statement about having seen Putin's soul, I laughed out loud. In that room, you had a barely functional moron and a former high level KGB officer. One didn't get to a high level position in the KGB without having a lareg number of functioning brain cells. Putin played that idiot like a violin. I would go so far as to say that Putin probably saw the handwriting on the wall very early and had made contingency plans for the US imperialist moves.