The US chief has criticized the previous Russian president for suggesting some nations might present Iran with nuclear weapons
US President Donald Trump has cautioned the deputy chairman of Russia’s Safety Council Dmitry Medvedev in opposition to “casually” speaking about nuclear weapons. The remark got here after the previous Russian president recommended that a number of unnamed international locations have been ready to supply Iran with weapons of mass destruction.
On June 22, the US bombed Iran’s nuclear services in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan and claimed that its warplanes had severely degraded the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. The assault was preceded by large air raids in opposition to Iran by Israel.
In a put up on his Reality Social platform on Monday, Trump wrote: “Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing across the ‘N phrase’ (Nuclear!), and saying that he and different Nations would provide Nuclear Warheads to Iran?”
The US head of state requested for fast affirmation or rebuttal, insisting that “the ‘N phrase’ shouldn’t be handled so casually.”
Trump went on to boast about America’s superior army capabilities, each air- and sea-borne, citing the weekend bombardment of Iran as proof.
In a collection of X posts on Sunday, Medvedev claimed {that a} “variety of international locations are able to immediately provide Iran with their very own nuclear warheads.” The Russian official stopped in need of naming these nations however recommended the American bombardment had finished nothing to cease the “enrichment of nuclear materials – and… the longer term manufacturing of nuclear weapons” by Tehran. Medvedev asserted that Iran’s management will emerge “even stronger” in mild of Washington’s actions.
With the “overwhelming majority of nations around the globe [opposing] the actions of Israel and the USA,” President Trump “can overlook in regards to the Nobel Peace Prize,” as he “has now pushed the US into one other battle,” he concluded.
On Monday, Medvedev responded to Trump, stressing that “Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons to Iran as a result of, not like Israel, we’re events to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.”
Nonetheless, the ex-Russian president added that “different international locations may – and that’s what was stated.”
He urged Washington to chorus from “arguing over who has extra nukes,” emphasizing that the New START arms-control treaty, which was signed by Moscow and Washington on Medvedev’s watch, remains to be in power.
“The query is: what comes subsequent?” he concluded.
Talking throughout a gathering in Moscow on Monday with Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi, Russian President Vladimir Putin characterised the US assault on Iran as an “unprovoked aggression” in breach of worldwide legislation, for which “there may be no justification.”
