MOSCOW, February 18. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned in an interview with Al Arabiya television channel that new strikes on Iran would have adverse consequences for the international community.
"The consequences would be adverse," Lavrov stressed. "Strikes on Iran have already occurred in the past, targeting the nuclear facilities supervised by the IAEA."
Lavrov noted that the US and Israeli strikes on Iran in June 2025 not only undermined the authority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but also "there were real risks of a nuclear incident."
"The situation is more or less stable right now, judging from the data of our Iranian colleagues," he added. "However, the strikes on nuclear facilities forced the Iranians to think about the physical protection of nuclear materials, which, I repeat, are under the IAEA’s control and cannot be ‘touched’."
According to the Russian foreign minister, by such actions the United States and Israel not only created physical risks, but also "undermined the authority of the IAEA and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons," which, according to repeated statements by official Tehran, "is mandatory."
