“The use of military force against Iran is an unacceptable option,” Voice of Russia quoted Lavrov as saying at the 49th Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Israel has repeatedly threatened Iran with a military attack over the country’s nuclear energy program, which the US, Tel Aviv and their allies allege may be a cover for a military agenda.
Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said in December 2012 that the US was preparing for potential use of military action against Iran.
In November 2012, Iran protested in a letter to the UN Security Council that Israel’s threats are in flagrant violation of the most fundamental provisions of the Charter and the basic principles of international law which prohibit any act of aggression.
Washington and the European Union have also used the nuclear allegations as a pretext to impose illegal unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Iran refutes the allegations and argues that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The Russian foreign minister further criticized the illegal Western unilateral sanctions against Iran, saying that they are an impediment to the resolution of the standoff.
“We should persuade Iran that we are not talking about the change of the regime, because unilateral sanctions are not about nonproliferation but exactly about the change of the regime. And this is how this mistrust could be overcome,” Lavrov said.
China and Russia, as two veto-wielding powers at the UN Security Council, have persistently expressed their support for Iran’s nuclear energy program, voicing opposition to the sanctions against Tehran.
Russian presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said on January 25 that, “We have witnessed numerous times when sanctions did not create any obstacles for very grave situations, but they were significantly harming the civilian population, the people of the country, and making their living unbearable. So sanctions are not every time a good way or the best way.”
Russian has threaten…. Threatened with a preemptive strike, that is well known. Russia did not mention any specific country but one dose not have to be a rocket scientist to understand what country or countries the warnings were being directed at . The west believes it can totally destroy a nation if that nations Government and people do not concede to the supreme will of the U S . F__K the west . enough is enough . I disagree in part, Israel ranks second to being the most evil regime in the world, The United States holds the number one position in the world . I should know I live in America .
One wonders why Russia does not just threaten the US and its poodles in NATO with retaliation if it invades Syria . Surely the Russians must know by now that they are dealing with psychopaths / lunatics and bullies that infest the western nations . with the most malignant of them being Israel . the attack on a Syrian research establishment by the Israeli’s comes with no condemnation by US and its poodles . no censure by the UN and of course very little media coverage [ No surprise ] and for sure when the s**t hits the fan . the dumb and apathetic will ask “WHY” !!
War between these two nations is inevitable . Russia and the U S .