‘What Have the Americans Accomplished?’ – Medvedev Says Iran Will Get Nukes

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Federation’s Security Council and the Kremlin’s go-to guy for outlandish nuclear saber-rattling, announced on Sunday that there are a “number of countries” that would supply Tehran with nuclear weapons, following the US’ strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

“What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?” Medvedev asked on social media. “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,” he said.

Medvedev said Iran’s political leadership of Islamic fundamentalists may have “come out even stronger” after the attacks.

Some on-the-street interviews in Tehran, known for its more cosmopolitan and liberal population than in the Iranian hinterland, partly confirmed that point of view.

“Iranian people are people of honor, and we will definitely give a strong response,” one man told CNN. “We will stand strong, like we have been for the past 40 years,” he added.

 “A lot of those standing here chanting slogans against the United States may have been critics of the policies of the Islamic Republic. But today all of us are standing in one line behind the supreme leader,” said Hamid Rasaee, a politician.

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Whether Iran is actually developing a nuclear weapon has always been a matter of debate internationally, and even within the current US administration. Earlier this month, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard took her boss, President Donald Trump, to task for threatening an attack against Iran, saying that Tehran is not even close to developing such a weapon.

A week later, when asked about those comments aboard Air Force One, Trump shot back: “I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having a weapon.”

He then announced on Friday a “two-week” window for Iran to agree to stop bombing Israel, but after two days, he ordered the US military to strike the Fordow nuclear facility with bunker-busting bombs, dropped from stealth bombers, as well as other nuclear facilities with other missiles and ordnance.

Immediately following the attack, Medvedev said Israel and Iran should both give up their nuclear arsenals, Russian state media TASS reported, citing Medvedev’s social media page. 

Medvedev has sometimes been called the “herald of the apocalypse” internationally, as he is often tasked by the Kremlin with delivering the message of nuclear annihilation as deterrence against Western defense of Ukraine.