On Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov strongly warned Israel against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“We have repeatedly warned and continue to warn and caution [Israel] against even hypothetically considering the possibility of an attack on [Iran’s] nuclear facilities and nuclear infrastructure,” Ryabkov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
“This would be a catastrophic development and a complete rejection of the existing postulates in the sphere of nuclear security,” the Russian diplomat added.
The warning from Russia comes amid anticipation of an Israeli attack on Iran in response to the nearly 200 Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired at Israeli territory on October 1. The Iranian attack was a response to a string of Israeli assassinations in the region, including the killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.
There have been calls in Israel and the US for Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear program even though there’s no evidence Tehran is seeking a nuclear weapon, which was recently acknowledged by the CIA.
According to media reports, Israel has told the US that it would strike military targets, not oil or nuclear infrastructure. However, in response to one of those reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, “We listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interests.”
ABC News and CNN both reported on Wednesday that Netanyahu has approved targets to hit inside Israel, but their sources did not share any other details. Israel is expected to launch the attack before the US presidential election on November 5, but the exact timeline is unclear.
Warning or else what?
Excellent question. I am neither convinced that the Russian Federation vehemently opposes the Apartheid State of Israel, nor that the RF maintains a mild-or-more interest in ASI activities.
To my mind it's a question of how "allied" with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the RF is. Which at present seems, "Distant 4th place, behind the DPRK (3rd), and a coin toss between Belarus or the DPRC for #1 Ally."
Well, yes Pezeshkian isn't trusted, after all the first thing he did was sucking up to Washington. He was rewarded by being portrayed as a moderate and a liberal reformer at the time in the Western press. He got disabused of any notion of the utility for him personally, let alone for Iranian interests of that proposition fairly quickly, but it is still not entirely clear if the Pezeshkian faction has learned that lesson fully and bend over backwards just to get fecked again at the earliest opportune moment, so Russia is keeping them at a distance.
He was foolishly trusting the U.S. He is a cardiologist, a heart surgeon, not a person wise in the ways of political sensibilities.
He finally got it, and now does not trust the U.S.. At all.
Same.
Hopefully a retaliatory attack on israel by any nation or "guerilla" group. Let's just get it over with.
Michael Hudson is calling it a civilization war.
Michael Hudson:
Well, it’s more than just a geographic split. We’re really in a civilizational split, and it goes much deeper. What’s at stake is what kind of economy is the world going to have?
Is it going to be a financialized, neoliberal post-industrial economy, which is what the United States and Europe are pushing? Or is it going to be the kind of economy that textbooks talk about, where economies produce agricultural and industrial goods to feed themselves and make everybody prosper? I almost would use Rosa Luxemburg’s phrase, Barbarism or Socialism, because the West no longer has the means of real economic control over trade and production. It only has military force, terrorist violence and corruption to maintain its control.
The NATO West does financial control by having loaded down the global South and even many Asian countries with dollarized debt for the last 70 years. That dollarized debt holds them in a financial neocolonialism, an international debt peonage. Besides that, the ultimate power that the United States and Europe have to maintain their unipolar control to prevent other countries from going their own way and pursuing their own interests is to bomb them and mobilize terrorism.
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/07/barbarism-or-civilization/
Read Mr. Hudson's remarks in this episode of Scheerpost: https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/08/michael-hudson-and-richard-wolff-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-us-take-action/
I watched this on the stream weeks ago.
It's gonna be a catastrophic development in any case. Have we forgotten about the Palestinian (and now also Lebanese) genocide by the colonial entity and their masters in Washington DC?!
It is most like giving a shooter a weapons, ammo, then turn the other way when a school is shot up.
Russia is so EVIL. Israel is free and has the right to do anything it wants. If Israel wants to drag the entire world into WWIII and nuclear Armageddon, it's none of Russia's business.
There is no person or state of persons whose business a nuclear war is not. All persons & peoples will suffer ruinous health & economic catastrophic adverse outcomes. Some will do better than others but only a fool will welcome such an event!
We have seen Russia act when it thinks it is attacked or it'security is endangered!!!!!!!!
Any state that threatens them can expect Russia to make it their business to end the threat vigorously with their most potent bombs on the planet & unstoppable means of delivery!!! The only other state with such capabilities will be their ally. God help any that blunders inti their maw
I’m with you on this, but the issue with nuclear pollution, it’s contagious.
If that happens, well, Israel would be lit up and then cease to exist. More than Bibi's home would be hit.
I'm so gullible. I became excited and started hallucinating when I read: "ABC News and CNN both reported on Wednesday that Netanyahu has approved targets to hit inside Israel…" until I realized it was just a typo.
… But they didn't warn Not to attack Iran's oil facilities because otherwise it would be a windfall for them…!
An attack on IRI nuclear facilities could be a wind fallout for the Russian Federation.
… And/or Russia is concerned Ukraine would do the same to them…!
I feel, this time Israel will cause some civilian causality to piss off Iran for a larger retaliation.
Russia could deploy S400 systems to Iran but they won't.
Iran doesn’t need it…!
They have a large number of S400's that were deployed last month, and the Sukoi S35. Israel and the US will not have any free reign over Iran. If attacked I hope Iran brings down many of the IAF terror machines.
At these prices, why not ?? The Russian Federation is overstocked, and needs to clear space on the lot for 2025 S400's AND the completely redesigned S500 and S500LX models ! 0.99% APR financing ! Trade-ins at Kyllinov Blue Book value for S200's and S300's – push, pull, or drag ! Popcorn and petting zoo for the kids ! No-Commission sales staff ! Just off Russian State Route 6π in upper West Petersberg ! Tell 'em Dimitri sent ya !!
Apropos of this particular discussion: “Why Russia won’t save Iran,” by Eldar Mamedov, Responsible Statecraft, 10/23/24.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russia-wont-save-iran/
Israel continues to walk a very fine line, in all regards. The US certainly needs to consider its own complicity, across the board.
Palestinians may not be able to defend their selves but Iranians certainly can. Good of the Russians to contribute to the conversation…
Is this the [RED] line? Or the growling bear?
The BRICS alliance is working.
https://brics-russia2024.ru/en/news/iran-primet-uchastie-v-sammite-briks/
https://infobrics.org/
http://www.brics.utoronto.ca/
This rotting,decaying,fiat house of cards will come trashing down like confetti at a parade. Its the only [real] thing keeping the tottering empire from the final tip. No Virginia, you cant run an empire paying 1 trillion a year just on the interest of your 35+ trillion debt of principle owed to the very folks in charge of your empire’ the bloody bankers at federal reserve….i love the stench of plutocracy masquerading as a [rep] democracy.
'…catastrophic development and a complete rejection of the existing postulates in the sphere of nuclear security,”
bear bark?
The Germans have a word which fits Zelensky to a tee: Arschloch.
Bibi just raises his middle finger and says … 'So. What are you going to do about it. HUH? What part of BUZZ OFF don't you understand?'