Vice President JD Vance reacted to a senior Russian official's alarming claim regarding nuclear support for Iran, labeling it a bizarre response to a recent U.S. strike on Iranian facilities. He noted that while the speaker's views may not represent the official Russian stance, there's a consensus among major powers like Russia, China, and the U.S. against Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Vance highlighted that preventing nuclear arms proliferation in the Middle East is a critical shared goal, contradicting the narrative that Russia would support Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The enrichment of nuclear material, and now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons will continue. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.
I think it's a bizarre response. But I also don't know that that guy speaks for President [Vladimir] Putin, or for the Russian government.
One of the things that we've picked up... they don't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. Iran having a nuclear weapon, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, is a disaster for pretty much everybody.
It's one of the few issues where Russia, China, and the United States have brought agreement, is that we don't want to see a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
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