{"id":2989,"date":"2024-09-18T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopolitic.info\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:07:50","slug":"russia-sharing-nuclear-secrets-with-iran-fuels-u-s-u-k-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopolitic.info\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/russia-sharing-nuclear-secrets-with-iran-fuels-u-s-u-k-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sharing nuclear secrets with Iran fuels U.S.-U.K. worries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The U.S. and U.K. are increasingly concerned that Russia is sharing secret information and technology with Iran that could bring it closer to being able to build nuclear weapons, in exchange for Tehran providing Moscow with ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kremlin has increased its cooperation with Iran over its ambitions to obtain atomic weapons in recent months, according to Western officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss assessments that haven\u2019t been made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development was discussed by U.S. and U.K. officials in Washington this week, the people added, as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met President Joe Biden at the White House for a strategic meeting on foreign policy. They described it as worrying, and an escalation of Russia and Iran\u2019s military ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s administration remains deeply concerned with Iran\u2019s nuclear activities, according to a spokesperson for the White House\u2019s National Security Council. Biden has made it clear that the U.S. is ready to use all elements of national power to prevent any nuclear escalation by Iran, the spokesperson said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry and Iran\u2019s Embassy at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group of Seven foreign ministers condemned “Iran\u2019s export and Russia\u2019s procurement of Iranian ballistic missiles\u201d in a joint statement on Saturday, calling it a further escalation of Iranian military support to Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and demanding that it cease immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested during a recent visit to London that Russia was exchanging nuclear technology with Tehran, saying Moscow had received a shipment of Iran\u2019s Fath-360 ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For its part, Russia is sharing technology that Iran seeks \u2014 this is a two-way street \u2014 including on nuclear issues, as well as some space information,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy agreed during talks in London that “Iran\u2019s nuclear program had never been more advanced,\u201d the U.S. State Department said in a joint statement Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran insists it isn\u2019t looking to produce nuclear weapons, although there\u2019s concern it could build them in response to escalating tensions with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, a senior Iranian general said the Islamic Republic could revise its nuclear doctrine if Israel targeted its atomic facilities, remarks that were seen as a warning that it could seek to produce a warhead, having long said its atomic capabilities were only for civil purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IAEA, the United Nations watchdog, said Iran\u2019s nuclear-fuel levels rose between June and August, enough to fuel a handful of warheads should Iran make a political decision to pursue weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a conference in London last weekend, U.S. CIA Director William Burns said Russia and Iran were deepening their military relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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