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The cable was sent by US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security Ellen Tauscher after meeting Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at
the Defense Ministry Amos Gilad.
The American diplomatic documents leaked to the website Wikileaks and published in
France's Le Monde suggest that Russia's attitudes to Iran were "mysterious," as written
in a memo from November 2009. The cable was sent one year before the Kremlin
announced it would cancel its deal to supply Iran with the missiles.
The Israelis are very concerned about the need to act more forcefully to get Russia to
join diplomatic efforts against Iran, the document says. In a number of cables from
December 2009, Israelis expressed their fears on this issue to the US government.
Behind the scenes, there was extensive correspondence on this issue, and on December
1, 2009 Tauscher sent a cable to the secretary of state, saying that Gilad had said
Moscow has asked Israel for advanced drones in exchange for canceling the S-300 deal.
Gilad said the Russians are aware they are behind in these technologies, and that they
are ready to pay $1 billion in return for Israeli technologies.
Gilad, the document says, emphasized that Israel would not supply Russia with its most
advanced technologies because it would quickly end up in China's hands.
On the same day, Foreign Ministry Director-General Yossi Gal met Tauscher, and said the
time had come to impose sanctions which would paralyze Iran. He compared sanctions
to an urgent medical prescription for antibiotics, which must be taken every day
otherwise it would have no effect. (Yedioth Ahranot)
German President Christian Wulff began his morning on Sunday with a first official visit
to Israel since taking office. He was welcomed with an official ceremony held at the
Presidential residence in Jerusalem, where he met with President Shimon Peres, who
later accompanied him on a tour of the Holocaust museum Yad Vashem.
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