“Without a doubt, Russia is concerned about the growing threat of a military strike on this country,” Putin said. “If this happens the fallout would be truly catastrophic.”
Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency were denied access to Iran’s Parchin military base earlier this month, raising concern over a weapons component to the country’s atomic program that the U.S. and Israel have signaled might prompt an attack.
Today’s article in Russian newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti became the last in a series of comments on foreign policy issues made during Putin’s election campaign for the Kremlin. Last week he said that the West is seeking to bring about a regime change in Iran under the guise of stamping out its nuclear-arms ambitions.
The U.S. has a “fundamentally different understanding of security from ours,” he said. NATO enlargement and U.S. plans for a missile-defense system in Europe “shatter Russia’s security and work against stability in the world.”
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