Nations prepared to arm Iran with nuclear warheads after US strikes, Russia's Medvedev claims

[AntiFascist]

Source: The Jerusalem Post

A “number of countries” are ready to supply Iran with nuclear warheads following American strikes on nuclear facilities early on Sunday, Russian ex-president Dmitriy Medvedev claimed on social media.

In a post on X/Twitter, Medvedev suggested that the United States’ attacks on three sites in Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow backfired, and led to the opposite result from what US President Donald Trump had set out to achieve.

According to Medvedev, “enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue.”
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Medvedev, who has served as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020, further stated that “Iran’s political regime has survived — and in all likelihood, has come out even stronger,” continuing on to claim that Iranians are “rallying around the country’s spiritual leadership, including those who were previously indifferent or opposed to it.”


Read more: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858550

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Not that I trust anything coming out of Russia, but it doesn't sound like Putin is happy with Trump.

[Mosby]

1. If that were to happen (probably BS)

KSA will get their own from Pakistan and the nuclear arms war will be on.

[vapor2]

2. But tom cotton (AR) says trump has made us safer

I say WTF? Our national security , our global credibility compromised by a convicted felon and liar

[BOSSHOG]

4. And economic pain, at least in the short run

[patphil]

9. Fuzzy thinking from the Cotton Head.

[Midnight Writer]

25. Tom Cotton sent a letter to the Ayatollah urging him not to negotiate with the United States.

He tried to derail all of the diplomatic efforts of the Obama Administration to prevent Iran from getting nukes, including in-country inspectors.

He is a self-inflated fool who has no clue or desire to solve our Country's problems.

[BidenRocks]

44. Think Reagan telling Iran to

keep the hostages until he was inaugurated.

[Ponietz]

3. I predicted Pakistan will give one or a few to Iran

[zorbasd]

14. Iran already has the capability to put some together

They've made enough uranium to make a couple of bombs.

[IbogaProject]

27. They were focused on electricty

But now they will habe to burn their own oil.

[womanofthehills]

41. Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is still operating

Putin has over 200 Russians working at Bushehr and supposedly Israel & US agreed not to attack it.

I think Israel stuck close to it though. However- it’s only supplying power to 2% of Iran but it’s currently constructing two more reactors at site.

[mitch96]

49. I thought it was Russia's Medvedev telegraphing that they, ruzzia would give Iran a nuke..And in turn Iran wold

nuke Israel... Hold on to your shorts boys and girls...duck an cover...
My thought's and assumptions with no proof...
m

[DENVERPOPS]

52. Trump has opened Pandora's Box"

with his Penis "flexing".............

Wasn't it Jared that Trump tasked with making peace in the Mid East? I'm sure that is correct.
If not that, what did the Saudi's Truly pay Jared the TWO BILLION for?????????????

You can be sure that our Intelligence Community doesn't know 100th of what they used to, with no other NATO country willing to share their Top Secret Intel with us after Trump's first term...........

Trump is nearing the point of NATO countries kicking him out of NATO, and the G7 countries kicking him out.......

Just think of everything Trump does, as following the explicit orders of Putin, and Putin's grand plan to destroy the U.S. from the inside......

[AntiFascist]

55. Trump only trusts Israeli and Russian intelligence...

he has come to the conclusion that US intelligence is inferior. Of course, this opens up the opportunity for Netanyahu and Putin to play him like a fiddle.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Putin may give nuclear weapons to Iran in return for all the drones they supplied for attacks on Ukraine.

[AntiFascist]

20. Good point, Russia has a massive nuclear arsenal not being utilized n/t

[LiberalArkie]

34. And my guess have not been maintained for decades. Kind of like the trucks and tanks at the start of the Ukraine attack

[AntiFascist]

50. This article is only two years old...

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Today, five key cities make up Rosatom’s nuclear weapons complex: Ozersk (population of about 89,000); Snezhinsk (about 52,000) and Trekhgorny (about 33,000) in Chelyabinsk region; Lesnoy (50,000) in Yekaterinburg region; and Sarov (96,000) in Nizhny Novgorod region (Zato.tv, May 25). Thus, four manufacturing facilities and two of the central storage facilities are located across the eastern part of the Ural Mountains. Moreover, every Russian nuclear warhead needs to be delivered to a manufacturing facility at least every 12 to 15 years for maintenance. This means that the nuclear industrial base is the key for regular maintenance of the Russian nuclear arsenal—and without this system, the nuclear warheads would cease to be operable.

https://jamestown.org/program/the-nuclear-sequence-of-the-belgorod-raid/

[Martin68]

6. Easier said than done.

The US could retaliate by giving Ukraine nuclear weapons. Let the brinkmanship begin! "Someone will set the spark off, and we will all be blown away!" (Kingston Trio's "Merry Minuet&quot

Or, as Tom Lehrer asked, "Who's Next?"

[patphil]

7. Trump's precipitous action may actually speed up Iran's entry into the nuclear weapons club.

We're definitely a couple steps closer to WW3 as a result of the actions of Israel and the US.
Now we'll see if Russia actually does what Medvedev is saying.

[stillcool]

8. Could be thrilled with Trump

as Rumsfeld would say, too many unknown, unknowns.

[Auggie]

13. I agree

Much of Putin's wealth comes from oil. Anything that increases the price ...

[stillcool]

16. i didn't even think of that

and then there's Russia's Afghanistan. Those who were enemies one day, make deals the next, and that was decades ago. The land stays the same, as I guess does the game.

[Auggie]

18. Trump has targeted Calfornia's emissions and EV sales goals ...

both of which, if overturned, increases the use of gasoline in the largest and most populous state of the US.

Anything that increase the price of oil ...

[BidenRocks]

45. We have refineries closing.

$$$$$$$$$$

[ToxMarz]

26. Yep, those are the BAD ones

Yikes!

[DallasNE]

10. Who Couldn't See This Coming? n/t

[Passages]

11. One can just sense the world peace that's coming down the pike.

[underpants]

30. ❤️

👍

[Buddyzbuddy]

12. Great, because the Felon is a reactionary idiot

he hears a nuke threat and his reaction to a verbal threat will be straight to our nukes. He wants to be feared and because he's such a mental midget with equipment to match he will go with the most threatening weapon in our arsenal.

Poker players everywhere would love to play against him. 95% of his hands would be a bluff and every bet would be "all in".

The line of succession is the aforementioned reactionary mental midget, then the guy with heavy eyeliner with ill fitting pants and bad socks and is the least deserving of his position and then the little fella from munchkin land that is cunning but overly ambitious who will smile to your face while twisting the knife in your back(don't ask me how) and for our 3rd runner up Methusela.
So much for being "the most powerful Nation in the world".

[Calista241]

15. This guy has been threatening nuclear annihilation every other day since we

Started supplying Ukraine with weapons.

[LymphocyteLover]

19. Yeah, he's famous for being drunk and making bomastic comments on social media

[Karasu]

17. Shouldn't be surprising to anyone. This isn't equivalent to attacking Afghanistan or Iraq.

This is entering another league.

[AntiFascist]

21. Attacking Iran was once the ultimate goal for neocons to gain access to Middle East oil...

now it looks like Trump has moved to their side.

[70sEraVet]

22. I doubt that the average Iranian is "rallying around the country's...leadership

any more than the average American is rallying around ours.
And how exactly do you smuggle nuclear warheads into another country? Especially after the possibility was announced?

[BidenRocks]

46. Clear And Present Danger

You don't need megatons when a few kilotons will work.
Now we have a small shipment.

[Rebl2]

23. I thought

I read yesterday Putin was asking trump not to bomb Iran. Trump didn’t listen to his puppet master.

[womanofthehills]

42. Putin said Israel & US promised not to bomb

Bushehr Nuclear Reactor - a joint venture of Russia & Iran with over 200 Russians working there.

[IowaUnionman]

24. Iran

Trump had to have the permission from Putin. The question is,what was given in return besides higher oil prices which benefit Russia.

[k0rs]

28. Medvedev...

...is Putin's sabre rattler in chief.

He further stated:

"The irresponsible decision to subject the territory of a sovereign state to missile and bomb attacks, whatever the arguments it may be presented with, flagrantly violates international law"

Good God y'all. The smell of burning hypocrisy in the morning is overwhelming. Any nuclear weapon detonated by Iran that could be traced back to Russia would invite a reply in kind...on Russia. If Russia is intent on arming Iran with nuclear weapons, perhaps nations allied to Ukraine should do the same for them. It should be obvious that this strategy doesn't end well.

Medvedev is a fucking moron.

[SidneyR]

29. Well then, support Ukraine now. n/t

[Nigrum Cattus]

31. That could be true of Ukraine as well

Someone could "supply" a nuke to Ukraine ?
How would the ruskies enjoy that ?

[BidenRocks]

32. Make America safe

Give Iran a list of every Republican voter and all the info on chump and his administration.
I am sure Iran knows what it is when a government acts without the nations support.
Carry on.
Most of us had zero say in this!

[Iggo]

33. He's going to destroy the world just to stay out of jail.

Fuck him and everyone who ever supported him.

[Butterflylady]

37. Don't forget netanyaho....

He's trying to stay out of jail too.....

[ImNotGod]

35. He's more full of shit than a Christmas goose. nt

[Warpy]

36. SURE they are

Russia made a big show over giving Belarus nuclear arms but failed to give them either the delivery systems or control over arming them.

Of course, we don't want even unarmed and badly maintained Russian nukes there, so this war needs to be an air war and not another quagmire of a ground war and it needs to be over soon.

Let's hope this is jus more bluff and bluster on Putin's par5 to disguise the fact that Russia is so bogged down in Ukraine that there is no way they can rush to Iran's aid and that their treaty of mutual aid only worked going one way, and that way aint to Iran.

[AntiFascist]

38. Now Trump is calling for regime change in order to "Make Iran Great Again"...

more than likely, he wants to join Netanyahu in calling for Crown Prince Pahlavi to be installed as a monarch.
The more authoritarians the better, as far as they are concerned, as long Iran doesn't have a democracy.

[Warpy]

39. I don't fancy Phhlavi's prospects for longevity if that happens

so let's hope hefancies a life of safety and leisure as an exiled royal.

There are still plenty of people there who remember the Shah and SAVAK and that a royal autocrat was at least as bad as the religious one has been, albeit with a little less hypocrisy.

I don't know what Iran will do, whether they'll welcome the goveernment types who fled to Oman a few days ago back with open arms, whether they'll keep Khamenei on as a figurehead with just enough power to avoid a complete power vacuum while they decide what too do next or something I haven't thought about. I just don't think they'll want another Shah foisted upon them by external powers, they've been there and done that, the UK and US overthrowing their last democracy because oil men screamed communism when Iran nationalized their oil fields.

[AntiFascist]

48. Good post! n/t

[JoseBalow]

40. Blah blah blah

Imagine taking anything he says at face value

[Cha]

43. Exactly with your sentence. And, if true

answers my burning question that I've been asking since the Bombing.. What does Putin think about it?"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. Better get to kissing Pooty's Boot Krasnov

[Qutzupalotl]

51. One is a number.

So maybe only Russia.

[David__77]

53. At a certain point, proliferating advanced technology is easier and more effective than trying to extend a MAD umbrella.

[0rganism]

54. It realy does seem like Putin has started throwing F47 under the bus, huh...

> Not that I trust anything coming out of Russia, but it doesn't sound like Putin is happy with Trump

Yeah, it sure looks that way. Putin really gets to have his cake and eat it too with this situation. Russian oil gets a price bump, America's sucked into yet another disgraceful blunder -- and it's a doozy this time. This way, daddy Vladdy can distance himself from F47, profit from it, and laugh at both the stupidest leader on the planet and the nation saturated with enough gullible fools to elect this toddler tyrant to the highest office. Putin's having an awesome day!

F47 better hope he brought a flashlight 'cause it's dark here under the bus.

[Aussie105]

56. Iran needs nukes now more than ever.

Just to tell those pesky Israeli and US leaders to back off on the sabre rattling and war mongering.

I'm sure people have noticed the US doesn't readily throw WMDs at countries that have nukes.

Wonder what the rental plan is on a Russian nuke?

[Space Lemon]

57. Well that's definitely better.

Way to go Donald you stupid son of bitch!