Unnamed sources told Bloomberg Sept. 14 that the U.S. and U.K. “are increasingly concerned that Russia is sharing with Iran secret information and technology 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.” Never mind that the U.S. and U.K. have been sharing “secret information and technology” that helps the U.K. build nuclear warheads since 1958, in violation of at least in spirit, if maybe not the letter, of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The Kremlin has increased its cooperation with Iran over its ambitions to obtain atomic weapons in recent months, the unnamed Western officials claimed. This “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’s military ties.” 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, a spokesperson for the National Security Council said on Sept. 14.
The Group of Seven foreign ministers got on the bandwagon in a joint statement Sept. 14, condemning “Iran’s export and Russia’s procurement of Iranian ballistic missiles.” They called it a further escalation of Iranian military support to Russia’s war in Ukraine and demanded that it cease immediately, Bloomberg also reported.
