‘Bizarre’: JD Vance Fires Back After Senior Russian Official Threatens to Give Iran Nukes
Vice President JD Vance shrugged off a senior Russian official’s threat to provide Iran with nukes on Sunday morning, telling ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that it was a “bizarre response” to the United States’ Saturday evening strike on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“This morning, the Russian reaction caught my eye. Dmitry Medvedev, of course the former president, prime minister of Russia, now the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said, ‘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,'” noted Karl before asking: “What do you make of that Russian response? And are they off base? I mean, they’re saying that the nuclear program in Iran is still well underway.”
“Well, first of all, I think it’s a bizarre response. But I also don’t know that that guy speaks for President [Vladimir] Putin, or for the Russian government,” replied Vance. “One of the things that we’ve picked up, Jon, in our conversations with the Russians over the last few months, despite our many disagreements, of course, with the state of Russia, they’ve been very consistent that they don’t want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And this is what I think many commentators underappreciate about what the president did last night. Iran having a nuclear weapon, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, is a disaster for pretty much everybody.”
Vice President JD Vance shrugged off a senior Russian official’s threat to provide Iran with nukes on Sunday morning, telling ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that it was a “bizarre response” to the United States’ Saturday evening strike on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“This morning, the Russian reaction caught my eye. Dmitry Medvedev, of course the former president, prime minister of Russia, now the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said, ‘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,'” noted Karl before asking: “What do you make of that Russian response? And are they off base? I mean, they’re saying that the nuclear program in Iran is still well underway.”
“Well, first of all, I think it’s a bizarre response. But I also don’t know that that guy speaks for President [Vladimir] Putin, or for the Russian government,” replied Vance. “One of the things that we’ve picked up, Jon, in our conversations with the Russians over the last few months, despite our many disagreements, of course, with the state of Russia, they’ve been very consistent that they don’t want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And this is what I think many commentators underappreciate about what the president did last night. Iran having a nuclear weapon, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, is a disaster for pretty much everybody.”
