Iran Breaks UN Resolutions as Nuclear Program Grows, Russia Says
Source: Bloomberg
Iran is breaching United Nations resolutions and increasing the size of its nuclear program amid an “alarming” escalation in global attitudes toward the country’s atomic plans, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
“The scale of the Iranian nuclear program is expanding,” Ryabkov said yesterday in an interview in New Delhi. This “is in direct violation of UN resolutions.”
The so-called BRICS group of major emerging markets that met yesterday in India said the situation in Iran can’t “be allowed to escalate into conflict,” according to a communique. Iran faces growing economic and financial sanctions over its nuclear program, which the U.S. and its allies say is a cover to make atomic weapons. Iran says the program is for civilian purposes.
If tensions over the nation’s nuclear plans escalate into a military confrontation, a conflict would trigger a new global economic crisis, Ryabkov said, adding that he doesn’t rule out that strikes may be carried out against Iran.
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Though I do hope they're smart enough to stay out of Iran, because if they do invade, and if Iran manages to finish a new nukes anyway.....I shudder to think of what could become of cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc. 
