Warning about the threat of attack on nuclear centers in the Middle East

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Novosti” news agency, Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, emphasized that the threat of attacking nuclear facilities in the Middle East region leads to a reduction of the permissible threshold in this field. According to him, the long-term support of the United States has led Israel to adopt “too strict” positions towards Iran and other countries.

Deputy Minister of Affairs Moreover, recently, a trend has started to emerge again in which nuclear facilities and nuclear activities are used as “a tool, if not for direct military confrontation, but for psychological information warfare,” he added. This is a very dangerous way because it will actually lead to a lowering of the acceptable threshold in this field. And of course, the daily attacks of Ukrainian forces on the Zaporozhian nuclear power plant show that security, military and political negligence is flourishing in the countries that hide behind America. And this situation must end.

Yesterday, Mikhail Ulyanov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to International Organizations in Vienna, said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) The IAEA has decided to temporarily withdraw its experts from Iran’s nuclear facilities due to the tense situation in the Middle East region.

Russia’s condition to waive the suspension of the ban on short- and medium-range missiles

Sergei Ryabkov raised this issue in relation to the beginning of the Salaknib-24 exercise with the presence of American and Filipino soldiers in the northern Philippines. did During these maneuvers, the United States deployed an MRC (Mid-Range Capability) class missile system for the first time.

The high-ranking Russian diplomat added: “We have said more than once that the appearance of short- and medium-range American weapons in any region of the world would mean Russia abandoning the suspension of the agreement related to these weapons.” He reminded that any decision on the fate of suspending Russia’s participation in the INF Treaty will be taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ryabkov continued: Accordingly, any decision in this field is made at our highest level, but the Americans know very well that the period of relative stability in this field is for them. will end, but apparently they have taken a different path.

In this regard, Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador in Washington, also announced this morning that the United States It has brought destabilizing weapons, previously banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, out of the shadows for deployment in the Asia-Pacific region.

Antonov said. : “The Pentagon’s public display of its capabilities to rapidly deploy missile weapons previously banned under the INF Treaty in the Asia-Pacific region raises deep concerns. Basically, the Americans have brought a whole class of destabilizing weapons out of the shadows to show their military superiority over their enemies. He called it a powerful blow to strategic stability and added: “The Pentagon’s deployment of medium-range missiles is a “black day” for international security.”