Russia tells US to stop imagining Iran threat

RUSSIA yesterday bluntly told the United States it saw no threat from Iran’s ballistic missiles and was perplexed how Washington could use this to justify a planned US defence system in Europe.

“We do not see any kind of threat from Iran,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a meeting in Tehran of foreign ministers from Caspian Sea states.

“Thus, we do not understand why, in order to justify the installation of a US anti-ballistic missile system in Europe, you have to bring up the pretext of a genuine Iranian threat,” he added.