Russia’s Safety Council’s Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev attends a gathering of the Council for Science and Schooling on the Joint Institute for Nuclear Analysis within the Moscow area’s metropolis of Dubna, Russia June 13, 2024.
Alexei Maishev | By way of Reuters
President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for claiming that a number of international locations are “able to straight provide” Iran with nuclear warheads on account of the U.S. strikes on key Iranian nuclear websites.
“Did he actually say that or, is it only a figment of my creativeness?” Trump stated of Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s safety council. “If he did say that, and, if confirmed, please let me know, IMMEDIATELY,” he wrote on Fact Social.
Trump chided Medvedev that the “N phrase” — which he specified stood for “Nuclear” — “shouldn’t be handled so casually.” However his response included the same bout of nuclear saber-rattling, suggesting that the president feels emboldened after ordering the bomb assaults towards Iran late Saturday ET.
“By the way in which, if anybody thinks our ‘{hardware}’ was nice over the weekend, far and away the strongest and finest gear we have now, 20 years superior over the pack, is our Nuclear Submarines,” Trump wrote, calling them “essentially the most highly effective and deadly weapons ever constructed.”
Trump added, “I assume that is why Putin’s ‘THE BOSS.'”
The publish got here in response to Medvedev, who preceded Vladimir Putin as president, criticizing the U.S. strikes on social media whereas downplaying their affect on Iran, a Russian ally.
Whereas Trump and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted that the assaults had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Worldwide Atomic Power Company stated Sunday morning London time that it detected “no enhance in off-site radiation ranges has been reported as of this time.”
Vice President JD Vance in a Sunday interview declined to say that the U.S. is definite that Iran’s nuclear websites had been destroyed, although he stated he believes “we have now actually pushed their program again by a really very long time.”
However Medvedev wrote early Sunday morning ET on X that Iranian nuclear infrastructure seems to have sustained solely minor injury, and asserted that the “future manufacturing of nuclear weapons” will proceed.
He added that, “Plenty of international locations are able to straight provide Iran with their very own nuclear warheads” following the U.S. strikes.
Medvedev additionally mocked Trump for having “pushed the US into one other warfare” that the majority international locations oppose.
“At this charge, Trump can neglect concerning the Nobel Peace Prize — not even with how rigged it has grow to be. What a solution to kick issues off, Mr. President. Congratulations!”
Russia’s present president, Vladimir Putin, on Monday condemned the U.S. army motion as “completely unprovoked aggression” and claimed that Moscow is making efforts to assist the Iranian individuals.
Medvedev responded to Trump’s critique in a brand new publish, writing, “Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons to Iran.”
“However different international locations may — that is what was stated,” he added.
