Russia’s prime minister rejected Israeli calls for Moscow to stop the transfer of nuclear technology to Iran. Speaking at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak after they met Tuesday in Oslo, Vladimir Putin said it would be “stupid” to allow Russia’s defense contractors to be “forced out of the very attractive and lucrative market” and be “replaced by other suppliers, mostly from the West.”
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