{"id":76997,"date":"2026-04-21T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/76997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:56:13","slug":"russia-us-israeli-strikes-on-iran-undermine-npt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/76997\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: US-Israeli strikes on Iran undermine NPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN- Russia has condemned the U.S.-Israeli military aggression against Iran, warning that the attacks have severely weakened the global nuclear nonproliferation regime and the IAEA safeguards system.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov described the strikes as unprovoked, unjustified, and illegal, a cynical abuse of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for political gain. He noted that the attacks were carried out primarily in Israel&#8217;s interest, despite Israel having historically ignored the NPT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United States, a founding father and depository of the treaty, supported the aggression, the veteran Russian diplomat regretted.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the gravity of the situation, Ryabkov said the strikes were conducted while negotiations were underway to verify the peaceful nature of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, negotiations that already went beyond NPT requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian diplomat further stated that the attacks targeted not only peaceful nuclear facilities but also civilian infrastructure, including educational and scientific institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran began on February 28, resulting in the assassination of Iran&#8217;s Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, as well as strikes on schools, hospitals, residential houses, nuclear facilities, infrastructure projects, and a synagogue in Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN- Russia has condemned the U.S.-Israeli military aggression against Iran, warning that the attacks have severely weakened the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,37,15886,55,69,683,28074,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-76997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-npt","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-tehran","13":"tag-u-s","14":"tag-us-israeli-trikes","15":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116444697982780305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}