In response to the US positions on Iran's nuclear program, Russia's representative to international organizations in Vienna emphasized that Tehran is not obligated to stop this program.
The problem of telling Iran that it cannot have nuclear weapons is to look who is saying this. The United States, which, with more than 5,000 nuclear weapons, has the second largest arsenal in the world, after Russia. And Israel, a nation with undeclared nuclear weapons, with something between 80 and 200 bombs. [...]
Ulyanov wrote on the X social network Friday night: "Apparently the US ambassador does not know that Iran is not forced to abandon its nuclear program. This is Iran's inalienable right."