Russia issues new nuclear warning on Iran-Israel conflict: “alarm bells”

The Western media should be ringing “alarm bells” about the nuclear risks involved in the Iran conflict, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, as Israel strikes Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel accuses Iran of seeking to build a nuclear bomb and says it is acting before that can happen. The U.S. is also considering strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Iran says its nuclear program is for civil energy purposes.

“It’s remarkable how little attention Western media are paying to the nuclear risks involved,” Zakharova said at a meeting with journalists during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), state media agency TASS reported.

“No alarm bells are being rung, no calls for restraint—as if this is just another routine escalation that we’ve seen many times before.”

Zakharova also said “precision strikes” do not preclude a nuclear disaster.

“Sure, it’s easy to claim that these are targeted, carefully calculated operations, but we’ve already witnessed missiles going off course, triggering fires and explosions far from their intended targets,” Zakharova said.

“Radiation doesn’t check passports. It doesn’t care about ethnicity, borders, or permissions. It seeps into water, air, and soil – and it can remain there for decades, even centuries, destroying lives.”

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