‘Several countries ready to supply nuclear warheads to Iran’: Top Putin aide amid US strikes on Tehran

Medvedev, who is a top aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin, wrote “A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.” But the Russian leader refrained from providing details of the specific countries that might pitch in and support Iran. Moscow has historically supported Iran’s nuclear program.

Earlier, Putin had offered to help mediate a peace talk between Israel and Iran in order to resolve the growing conflict. The Kremlin also offered to help negotiate a suitable nuclear deal between the US and Iran. Moscow’s efforts were rejected by Trump, who while taking a potshot at Russia had said, “They should first take care of their own conflict.”

When the former US President Barack Obama’s administration signed a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, which is also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Russia was involved in the process. The deal had lifted economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for a limit on Iran’s nuclear program. But Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 during his first tenure.

The US struck three nuclear sites of Iran late on Saturday and the mission involved more than 125 aircrafts which included B-2 Stealth Bombers, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine.

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