...who voluntarily take evidence that can tie them to the operation from the scene. Colour me skeptical [it's a kinda taupe colour].

“The absence of any US-Iran bilateral channel...may have the perverse effect of reinforcing Iranian interest in progressing in the nuclear realm so that the US will be forced to take it seriously and engage it directly." ~ Richard Haass

...that Israel would help improve a missile system it's currently facing in Iran and views as a serious threat? Even given that this would have theoretically happened some time ago, it wouldn't have escaped their notice that it could end up in unfriendly hands - vast majority of the Arab air defence components are Russian origin.

“The absence of any US-Iran bilateral channel...may have the perverse effect of reinforcing Iranian interest in progressing in the nuclear realm so that the US will be forced to take it seriously and engage it directly." ~ Richard Haass

The reality is that Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Egypt, all of them traffic technology (esp nuclear) all over the place. The Israelis are willing to trade along techs that might come back to bite them for a short term advantage, they just demand more baubles from the U.S.

It is exactly like the game Civilization. once you give away a tech that only you posess to one computer player, it immediately trades away to all the other players. The only way to win is to sell the same tech to everyone at once. Otherwise you get middlemen who pass it along for profit instead. (Israel deserves nothing we aren't willing to fork over to Russia or China. Period.)

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...technology exchanges in the past and the international geopolitical model employed is Civ? Sorry, but specifics matter - even if one adds all the Civ expansion packs. There have been any number of allegations of this type made in the past that haven't quite panned out and/or turned out to be something fairly different from as billed.

My view is that when the explication drags in hitmen named "Stinky" and phantasmic recce platforms like "Aurora" doing "testing" over foreign soil, it's past time to call for a bullshit check. [As an example, if the Greeks gave CIA their one S-300 system, how come it's still in the imagery of Crete?]

“The absence of any US-Iran bilateral channel...may have the perverse effect of reinforcing Iranian interest in progressing in the nuclear realm so that the US will be forced to take it seriously and engage it directly." ~ Richard Haass

the Chinese fine tune their ICBM telemetry methods? Was it profit? Or something else? I've always like to believe that companies like these are serving the national interest but in this case what was the motive? As silly as it may sound, I'm really inclined to the simplicity of Hong Pong's idea. Call it Occam's Razor, right?

^{Fuck it man, I'd wade through a river of shit ten times to see this place. ~ On Istanbul, April 2009}

Most importantly for our purposes that interest could be clearly identified and defined. Hughes wanted to their birds to fly and the consequences to them if they got caught were relatively minimal. This really isn't true in the case of technology transfer between Israel and Russia involving SAMs. Israeli regional military dominance is predicated first and foremost on air supremacy - to credibly suggest that they would risk this one needs at an absolute minimum to come forward with a pretty huge benefit that they would get out of such an action.

“The absence of any US-Iran bilateral channel...may have the perverse effect of reinforcing Iranian interest in progressing in the nuclear realm so that the US will be forced to take it seriously and engage it directly." ~ Richard Haass

The assumption that all Israelis are working together for the best interests of Israel is kind of like Greenspan's assumption that the leadership of financial institutions on wall street would never do anything to harm the interests of their own institutions. That went out the door the moment someone mentioned "bonus".