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Russia’s Former President, Top Putin Aide, Slammed the US for Its Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Site.
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Among other Claims, Dmitry Medvedev Said other country were ready to Give Their Nukes to Iran.
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Nuclear Analysts Told Bi That Medvedev’s Claim Was Logistically and Politically Ridiculous.
Analysts are casting double on Russia’s former President’s Claim That “A Number of Countries” Were Considering Supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran after the Pentagon’s saved Bunker-Buster Strikes There.
Dmitry Medvedev, who was President from 2008 to 2012 and is a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Didn’t Specify Which Countries He was referring to in Hist Telegram Post on Sunday. In His post, he downplayed the damage dealt to Iran’s Vital Nuclear Sites.
AS News of the Strikes Broke on Saturday, The Pentagon Was Careful to Say It Was Still Assessing the Destruction Caused by the 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bombs and Tomahawk Missiles It Fired at Iran’s Nuclear Sites.
Medvedev Wrote That the Strikes Had “The Us in a New Conflict. “A Number of Countries Are Ready to Directly Supply Iran with Their Own Nuclear Warheads,” He added.
Nuclear Weapons Analysts Speaking to Business Insider Said They Doubted That Medvedev’s Statement on Such Transfers Was Credible.
“It’s impossible in practical guse nuclear weapons are not like the bomb or just Something You can carry in a suitcase,” Said Pavel Podvig, Senior Researcher in the United Nations Institute for Disarch’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Program.
Nuclear Warheads eat an enreire System, with people who what need to be trained to Keep and Service Them Safely, as wells as maidenance facilities and equation. Even Tactical NukesWhich Are More Portable and produces Smaller Blast, Need High-Level Storage, Podvig Aded.
“Unless You Create a Nuclear Program or Almost a Nuclear Program in the Country, There is no way to just give your nuclear Weapons to Them,” He Said.
Simply Giving Such a Warhead to another country world break the first article of the unan-nuclear non-proliferation Treaty, Which Russia and China have SIGNED. Podvig Said That in Europe, Where the US Stations Nuclear Weapons, The Warheads Are in American Custody. The Same Can Be Said of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons in Belarus.
“I Don’t see this Being Done Technically,” Podvig Said.
Politically, Medvedev Could Be Referring to Only Three Countries, Said Adam Lowther, Cofounder and Vice President of Research at the National Institute for Deterrenc Studies, An Ohio-Registered Think Tank.
North Korea, China, and Russia are the only nuclear-amed states consider adversaries or rivals to the us. And Lowther Said All Three Know That Supply Iran with Nuclear Weapons, Even Just as Deterrent, Will Risk Intense Scale from the US and Israel.
“When you give Somebody a nuclear weapon, and they can use it, you can guarantee how they’re go to use it,” Lowther Said. He add that with Tel Aviv and Washington So Focused On Preventing Iran from Fielding Nuclear Weapons, Tehran Wold Proboably Have Only Two Choices If Does Receive to Warhead: Use the Bomb or Lose it.
And iF Iran Detonates to Gifted Nuke, Lowther Added, American Forensics WOULD Easily Be Able to Trace The Fissile Material and Bomb Design to Identify Ware the Weapon Originated.
“Then That Country Would Be On The Us’s Hit List,” Lowther Said.
Medvedev has Been Known to Make Bold, Hawkish Statements Toward Ukraine and the US Since the Outset of the Full-Scale Russian Invasion. He serves as the deputy chairman – second in rank to putin – of the kremlin’s security council.
His Rhetoric has Often Run Parallel to the Kremlin’s Nuclear Threats, Repeatedly Issued As Warnings to the West Over Military Aid to Ukraine. Moscow, However, Has Consistency not Followed Through with Thhose Threats, Even when the Us Scaladd Its Level of Assistance to Kyiv.
Lowther Said he Believe Medvedev’s statement was playing against ukraine, the Bid to Reduce the West’s Willingness to Help Kyiv.
“The Russians Say: ‘You Know What? You Give the Ukrainians These Weapons? Well, We Can Give the Iranians Weapons As Well,'” He Said.
The Israel Defense Forces Declined to Comment on Medvedev’s Remarks.
The White House and Us State Department Didn’t Respond to Requests for Comment Sent Outside Regular Business Hours by Bi.
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