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There are some interesting comments in Russia to Iran’s development of nuclear military capabilities. See this.
Izvestia calmly notes that Iran’s successfully tested Khaibar missile can deliver a 1.5 ton nuclear warhead over 2,000 km and has capabilities against electronic countermeasures. Izvestia then adds, that Iran can have a nuclear warhead “in 2-3 years”.
Also, Izvestia notes that there will be no JCPOA. On the prospects of this, Izvestia argues that a nuclear Iran is no cause for worry and will “safeguard friends” of Iran (of which Russia is one).
This news comes as reports emerge that Iran has completed a new nuclear facility which is 90 m underground – out of the reach of even the US’ strongest bunker buster bombs. Neither JCPOA nor US-Israeli conventional bombs can stop the Iranian nuclear program. As Izvestia dryly observes, the Iranian military nuclear program has “left the technical phase” and is already a political reality.
Izvestia adds that after the Saudi-Iranian understanding, an Israeli attack on Iran will probably no longer be met with “silence”, but with protests. It seems like Saudi Arabia and Iran have come to an understanding, where Saudi Arabia is okay with an Iranian nuclear capability. We can only speculate why. But allow me to add, that Saudi Arabia seeks to have its own nuclear reactors, and even if the US will not support this, then Russia is certainly willing to build them.
The way Izvestia discusses that Iran is soon a military nuclear power shows that Russia unofficially supports it?
Finland with 5 million people may have joined NATO, but Türkiye blocked Sweden with 10 million from entering NATO.
Even worse for the USA: Türkiye with 80 million people has de-facto left NATO – and now Erdogan has got reelected to continue Türkiye’s ever closer cooperation with Russia.
And due to the US support for the war in Ukraine, Russia has forged a de-facto alliance with Iran, has brought Iran out of sanctions with financial and economic cooperation, is building connective infrastructure rail and sea with Iran, and Russia-Iran military-industrial cooperation is up in very high gear. And now Russia is de-facto supportive, perhaps even helpful, in Iran’s final acquisition of not only a nuclear bomb, but also a missile to effectively deliver a nuclear strike on Israel or any US installation or warship within 2,000 km from Iran.
Even an amateur can see that Finland is a much smaller advantage for the US compared to the strategic adversity for the US of Russia cooperating with Türkiye and a nuclear Iran.
And in Ukraine, the US puppet régime in Kiev is in dissolution. Massive purges and “unexpected deaths” of top people sowed fear in Kiev at the beginning of 2023. Zelensky no longer dares to stay in Kiev and always travels abroad.
Ukraine’s top general Zaluzhny has suffered something and doesn’t seem to ever be capable of commanding soldiers again. Russia took Bakhmut. Ukraine is running out of soldiers. The US has weakened its military stockpiles around Taiwan as NATO has thrown its matériel away on Ukraine. Ukraine’s “counteroffensive” is fizzling. Instead of trying to win on the battlefield, Ukraine is instead resorting to terrorism inside Russia led by Kiev’s sinister and powerful security chief Budanov.
US power is crumbling fast.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
