Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday said that his country is prepared to help Iran replenish its uranium stockpiles, offering Tehran a path to a rebuilt nuclear program in the wake of the U.S. and Israeli campaign to prevent the Islamic Republic from building a bomb. "We have technological capacities and we are ready to offer them, taking the excess of overly enriched uranium and returning the power-generation-grade uranium to the Islamic Republic and its nuclear facilities." "Russia’s veiled threat to provide Iran with enriched uranium fuel—most of which was eliminated militarily by the United States and Israel—would help Tehran restore a nuclear weapons breakout capability," Andrea Stricker, a nonproliferation expert with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Free Beacon.
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Published at: 2025-07-08 21:00:03
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