It appears that Russian second-in-command Dmitri Medvedev has claimed that "numerous" countries are willing to supply Iran with nuclear weapons now that (I hope) their own native program has been shut down.
Well, for starters, since the nuclear "club" consists of the U.S.A., Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, India, and probably Israel, I'm pretty sure that it's not "numerous" countries, but rather Russia and China rattling the saber. Remember; don't believe anything about Russia until the Kremlin officially denies it!
But if indeed Russia and China are willing to supply Iran with nuclear weapons, there are a bunch of questions that come up. First of all, given that the weapon would almost certainly be used against Israel, we might ask "OK, so Russia is signing up to commit a new Holocaust....why?"
The next thing to be considered, IMO, is "have Russia and China considered how Iran might respond if they start to realize how Moscow and Beijing treat Muslim minorities like the Uyghurs and Chechens?". There are probably things Moscow and Beijing do to avoid facing their own weapons, but if it's a nuke launched by someone who doesn't terribly worry about death, I don't know that such methods would deter Iranians from diverting a missile intended for Tel Aviv to land in Moscow or Beijing instead.
Really, along these lines, it strikes me more and more that the proper way to respond to madmen like Putin, Medvedev, Pooh, and Khamenei is to use not "diplomatic" language of minced words, but rather with straight talk of "I see what you are doing there, and a thermonuclear Auschwitz is not an acceptable alternative to my country.".
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