Russia Denies Saudis Offered Billions for Cut in Aid to Iran

Here's another chink in the armor of the muslim ummah. The Saudis are trying their old trick of buying their way out of a problem, but it's not working this time. Well, they'll find that bribing the Russians will be a lot more costly than they think.

FROM ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM:

Russia Denies Saudis Offered Billions for Cut in Aid to Iran

(IsraelNN.com) Diplomatic sources told a Russian newspaper that Saudi Arabia has offered Moscow more than $2 billion in business in return for its scaling back help in building Iran's nuclear reactor. Russian President Vladimir Putin categorically denied the report, which came three days after Russian and Saudi Arabia signed an arms trade agreement.
"The kingdom's government advised Moscow to cut back its cooperation with Tehran, and in exchange it held out the prospect of profitable contracts with Saudi Arabia," the daily business newspaper Kommersant wrote.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Putin denied the report and said, "Any claims that military-technical cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia is in any way linked to Russian-Iranian dialogue are inappropriate and do not correspond to reality."
The report came one day after Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan met with President Putin and reportedly offered to buy 445 tanks, helicopters, planes and helicopters worth $2.4 billion. Bin Sultan and the Russian Federal Agency signed a trade agreement, but details were not released.
Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries have expressed increasing concern over Iran's developing nuclear power, fearing that Iran, which is a Persian and not Arab nation, will have more influence over rival Muslim sects in the Arab world.
Russia and China are the primary foreign countries that have sold technical knowledge to help Tehran build its nuclear facility, claiming that they trust that Iran will use it for civilian purposes.
Saudi Arabia maintains good relations with Russia as well as with the United States, which along with Israel has called for stricter sanctions in an effort to pressure the country against producing uranium, which can used for a nuclear weapon.
Russia "is continuing to build up dialogue and cooperate on a mutually beneficial basis with all neighboring states, including Iran," a Russian government spokesman said.