00:00U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran could encourage the country and its Arab neighbors to acquire
00:06nuclear weapons, Russia's foreign minister warned on Tuesday.
00:10Nations may now feel they need the bomb or risk being attacked by the United States,
00:16Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow.
00:19He also rejected claims that Tehran had been in pursuit of a nuclear arsenal.
00:26We hear about the goals of this war regularly, but we see no evidence that Iran was developing
00:33nuclear weapons, precisely what served as the main, if not the only, justification for
00:39the war.
00:42There's confirmation from the IAEA, as well as from American professional intelligence
00:47officers, that Iran neither produced nor attempted to produce nuclear weapons.
00:56Lavrov appeared to defend Tehran's claim that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes
01:02alone, including producing clean energy.
01:06The right to enrich uranium for the purposes of the peaceful use of nuclear energy is inalienable.
01:13To say that Iran alone in the entire world should give up this right, which other states possess,
01:20is probably not very realistic.
01:28Iran is one of Russia's closest allies in the Middle East.
01:32President Putin has called for an immediate end to the hostilities.
Comments