Source: www.wnd.com - Saturday, April 18, 2015
WASHINGTON – Russia and Iran are moving past their historically rocky relationship with a new signal from Moscow that Tehran would be welcome in its Eurasian Economic Union, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Iran’s response is that a good first step would be “preferential tariff” agreements. The EEU widely has been perceived as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cloaked effort to re-establish the former Soviet Union and compete head on with the troubled European Union. Now it appears to be a potential tool in Russia’s effort to get an economic jump on the West in any future business deals with Iran. Economic trade has been openly discussed as a possibility depending on a final agreement between Tehran and the West over its nuclear program. But now Russia apparently is trying to move to the head of the line. Read the full report at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The overture to Tehran is from EEU Chairman Viktor Khristenko, who during a recent meeting with Iranian ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanayee called for Iran’s membership in the group. “We are willing to see Iran’s membership and its active and effective cooperation with the union,” Khristenko said, Fars News reported. The EEU is composed of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia. Kyrgyzstan recently signed an agreement to join the union as of May after approval of its parliament. As a customs-free undertaking, the EEU is seen as a potential competition with
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WASHINGTON – Russia and Iran are moving past their historically rocky relationship with a new signal from Moscow that Tehran would be welcome in its Eurasian Economic Union, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Iran’s response is that a good first step would be “preferential tariff” agreements. The EEU widely has been perceived as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cloaked effort to re-establish the former Soviet Union and compete head on with the troubled European Union. Now it appears to be a potential tool in Russia’s effort to get an economic jump on the West in any future business deals with Iran. Economic trade has been openly discussed as a possibility depending on a final agreement between Tehran and the West over its nuclear program. But now Russia apparently is trying to move to the head of the line. Read the full report at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The overture to Tehran is from EEU Chairman Viktor Khristenko, who during a recent meeting with Iranian ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanayee called for Iran’s membership in the group. “We are willing to see Iran’s membership and its active and effective cooperation with the union,” Khristenko said, Fars News reported. The EEU is composed of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia. Kyrgyzstan recently signed an agreement to join the union as of May after approval of its parliament. As a customs-free undertaking, the EEU is seen as a potential competition withfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1Jh4V4j
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