If Russia cannot be trusted in its “near abroad,” there is little reason to believe it can be trusted any more in the Middle East. To the contrary. Moscow’s dealings with the ruling mullahs should have long convinced Europe that Russia doesn’t share its goal of stopping the Iranian bomb. How else could one explain Moscow’s construction of a nuclear reactor in Iran, its delivery of advanced antiaircraft missiles to Tehran and its refusal to pass anything but the weakest economic sanctions?
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The late U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos last year called Mr. Schröder a “political prostitute” for “taking big checks from Putin.” That’s extreme language—Lantos joked at the time that sex workers resented the comparison—but Mr. Schröder would be a more credible advocate for the Kremlin’s point of view if he weren’t on its payroll.
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