China and Russia Condemn U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites; European Allies and Arab States Offer Muted Support
UN Chief Guterres, terror group Hamas slam U.S. strikes as ‘a direct threat to international peace.’
President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan on Sunday morning was met with muted approval from European allies and Arab states.
While China predictably teamed up with Iran, Russia, and Pakistan to condemn the U.S. action, European leaders were surprisingly vague in their response, urging ‘all parties’ to show restraint and find a diplomatic solution.
Arab states, fearful of seeing a nuclear-armed Iran, called for ‘de-escalation’ and more ‘diplomacy.’
China led the condemnation of the U.S. targeting of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. In its first statement following the strikes, Beijing claimed the action “seriously violates the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law and exacerbates tensions in the Middle East.”
China singled out Israel as the aggressor, calling for a “ceasefire.” “China calls on all parties to the conflict, especially Israel, to cease fire as soon as possible,” the statement added.
The South China Morning Post reported China’s reaction:
China condemned the United States for its weekend attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, describing them as serious violations of international law.
In a brief statement on Sunday night, the Chinese foreign ministry said the bombing of the facilities, which were under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, seriously violated the United Nations Charter and its principles.
It called on all parties, especially Israel, to cease fire as soon as possible, ensure the safety of civilians and start dialogue.
“China is willing to work with the international community to uphold justice and restore peace and stability in the Middle East,” the ministry said.
Russia, which has a long history of nuclear cooperation with Iran, slammed President Trump’s decision to strike the regime’s nuclear weapons sites, the Euronews TV channel reported:
Russian officials on Sunday castigated the US for its missile strike against Iran’s nuclear plants, issuing veiled threats that Iran’s nuclear ambitions would not be thwarted and welcoming Tehran’s foreign minister for talks in Moscow. (…)
A statement from Russia’s Foreign Ministry “strongly condemned” the airstrikes and called them a “a gross violation of international law, the UN Charter, and UN Security Council resolutions.”
The Iranian foreign minister told reporters that he was rushing to Moscow today for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Politico reported:
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday announced he will travel to Moscow in the coming hours for urgent talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shortly after the United States launched airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear sites.
Araghchi emphasized the “strategic partnership” between Iran and Russia. “We always consult with each other and coordinate our positions,” he told reporters in Istanbul, according to media reports.
China’s military ally, Pakistan, which on Saturday endorsed President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, praising his “decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” during the recent military conflict with India, sharply criticized the U.S. decision to hit Iran’s nuclear sites.
“Pakistan condemns the US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities which follow the series of attacks by Israel,” the country’s foreign minister said in a statement. “We are gravely concerned at the possible further escalation of tensions in the region.”
France, UK urge Iran to seek a diplomatic solution
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for “diplomacy” and warned against “escalation” in the Middle East. He, however, acknowledged that the U.S. had apprised him ahead of the strike.
The BBC reported the British response:
Sir Keir Starmer has warned of a “risk of escalation” to the Middle East and beyond the region, as he calls for a return to the negotiating table after the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites overnight.
The prime minister said he wanted to “reassure the British public that we’re doing everything we can to stabilise the situation” and find a diplomatic solution after the US bombed three sites.
He added the government had “taken all necessary measures” to protect UK interests in the region but his focus was on de-escalation.
Sir Keir said there was no UK involvement in the US action but he was told about it in advance.
France, while paying lip service to diplomacy, seemed delighted at the prospect of Iran losing its nuclear capabilities. French President Emmanuel Macron told Tehran to ‘resume diplomatic talks’ while his Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot urged “all parties to exercise restraint.”
“France has repeatedly expressed its very firm opposition to Iran’s access to nuclear weapons,” the French foreign minister said. “France is convinced that a lasting settlement of this issue requires a negotiated solution within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he added.
The French newspaper Le Monde reports:
President Emmanuel Macron planned to convene a meeting of the country’s defence council on Sunday, the presidency said. Macron, who spoke with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and the leader of Oman earlier on Sunday, “intends to continue his contacts with European partners and leaders in the region in the coming hours,” the presidency added.
Later, Macron urged Tehran to resume diplomatic talks as he spoke to his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, the French presidency said.
Germany’s Merz tells Iran to ‘immediately’ start talks with U.S., Israel
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who last week praised Israel for doing the world a favor by taking up the ‘dirty work’ of dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons program, called on Iran to heed President Trump’s advice and return back to diplomacy.
“According to his spokesman, Stefan Kornelius, Merz also urged Iran, “to immediately start negotiations with the US and Israel and come to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict,” Germany’s DW TV reported. “Kornelius said the German government believed that “large parts of the Iranian nuclear program had been affected by the airstrikes,” but added that a precise analysis of the damage would be possible later.”
UN’s Guterres echoes Hamas’ talking points, says U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuke sites ‘direct threat to world peace’
Iran-sponsored murderous jihadist terror group Hamas condemned the”brutal U..S aggression” against the regime’s nuclear program.
“This brutal aggression, aimed a dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, was a dangerous escalation,” Hamas said. It was a “flagrant violation of international law, and a direct threat to international peace and security,” the terrorist group added.
Following Hamas’s condemnation and borrowing its talking points verbatim, the United Nations chief, Antonio Guterres, dubbed U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons sites “a direct threat to international peace and security.”
British newspaper The Guardian reported:
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday branded the US strikes on Iran as a “dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security.”
“There is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly get out of control – with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region, and the world,” Guterres said in a statement.
Prime Minister Netanyahu: President Trump’s ‘bold decision’ will ‘change history’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, saying his decisive move will “change history.”
“Congratulations, President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history,” he said in a televised address.
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Didn’t Iran have Russia’s latest and greatest air defense system ?
Had 😂
They had 4 s300 systems. Two generations old although I don’t know whether russia has begun to deploy s500 yet.
Everything here is predictable, It’s all so tiresome.
Even muted support from Arab states is impressive.
Actually, Germany seems to have replaced Merkel with a someone who is not a complete fool.
Surprisingly, the German Chancellor is the best of the lot. As for Guterres and the UN, they should relocate to Tehran without the US being a member.
I would love to hear some thorough bombing aftermath info before we get too excited how much was really done. Hopefully some of our weapons took out that plant that made the drones Russia is using against Ukraine. Maybe that’s why Putin is really angry over this event.
Well, I’d be interested how anything survives six fifteen ton bombs causing earthquakes 🤷♂️
Yes, the vile, feckless, stupid and evil dhimmis and Dhimmi-crats will predictably loudly profess that genocidal, belligerent and psychotic Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists have the “right” to build and stockpile nuclear weapons — all in the name of an utterly farcical and non-existent “peace.”
“Hamas slam U.S. strikes as ‘a direct threat to international peace.’”
My groan volume achieved a new personal record.
Israel doesn’t need the US
It already has everything it needs to knock out the UN… 🙂
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s civil rights violations, harrasment of neighboring countries navies and using slave labor gives them no room to criticize the US.
Peace through POWER, biotches!
The vast majority of America’s leftist opposition is based solely on their shared hatred of Trump.
The world’s leftist opposition is because;
1. It’s something America is doing, therefore must be evil,
2. They’ve been conditioned by their leftist media to hate anything Trump.
3. They hate Jews and think Jews control everything 🙄
Actually, that’s the left regardless of where they come from!
China and Democrats…peculiar how they are always on the same side.
Sort of like Islamofascist/Muslim terrorist states/groups and the Dhimmi-crats.
I need to point something out. Even though Russia and China are condemning the US strike on Iranian nuclear ambitions, they are not taking an obvious step to *give* Iran nuclear weapons. All they’d have to do is fly in a half-dozen Plutonium ‘pits’ milled and ready for use (and probably a few dozen of the flash ignitors for the explosive ‘squeeze’ also since those are awfully tricky) and inside of a few months, Iran would have bombs assembled around those pits and start to detonate them in whatever way they can do to murder Israelis. Groundbursts smuggled in cargo containers, or trucks, or whatever. They would *use* them, regardless of radioactive or political fallout.
It takes 90%+ pure uranium to make a ‘little boy’ type bomb. It’s a giant PITA to refine, but absolute pure stupid easy to set off. Two subcritical lumps smacked together and boom. Plutonium takes a functional reactor to make, or refining other nation’s used fuel rods, (or gifts). The resulting squeeze-type bomb (‘fat man’) is more complicated to make, but can be cranked out by the dozens. Nobody sane wants that either.
Yet. But you know if the mullahs can’t build their own, they are gonna go shopping. The only way to stop the shopping is to rid the world of the mullahs.
They could have shopped long ago and it would have been ten times easier. Their arrogance put them on the top of the no list.
Russia just paid lipservice to that very support and at least appear willing to feign as if they want to fight the whole world by violating the Nuclear treaty.
It all makes me wonder, if they are now threatening to give a nuke to Iran, why they didn’t before if these countries are so square on getting Iran nuclear? Something is a little fishy.
Russia mentioned that some countries might provide Iran with a nuclear warhead – both Russia and China should be against that happening for fear it might be used against them by Iran.