"Realisten dör i realpolitikern, men vad är den senare för ett sorts underligt djur i atomåldern? Jo, ofta en som viftar bort alla varningar från de verkliga realisterna." (Harry Martinson) http://is.gd/bAKLwH
In February 2012, the procurement director, Mr. Sergei Shutov of Zio-Podolsk was arrested for buying low quality and cheap raw material, passing it off as more expensive grade and pocketing the difference. Another Russian court has convicted one Mr. Alexander Murach, Director of another notorious Russian company, Informtekh, for fraud and sentenced him to three years in prison for selling counterfeit measuring equipment for the Russian nuclear power plants' turbines.
18 May 2013, Jim Lobe "An Iran with nukes will still be a declining power." -- Alireza Nader of the Rand Corporation. the report identifies the Islamic Republic’s military doctrine as defensive in nature. This posture is presumably a result of the volatile and unstable region in which it exists and is exacerbated by its status as a Shi’a and Persian-majority nation in a Sunni and Arab-majority region. I ran is also scarred by its traumatic eight-year war with Iraq in which as many as one million Iranians lost their lives Related IPS Articles U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arsenals Cling to Bygone Era Nuclear Iran Can Be Contained and Deterred: Report More Diplomacy, Less Pressure Needed for Iran Settlement – Report I