MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia is concerned about the “growing
threat” of an attack on Iran over its nuclear program, warning that
the consequences would be “truly catastrophic.”
In an article on foreign
policy for publication on Monday, six days before a March 4 presidential
election he is almost certain to win, Putin also warned Western and
Arab nations against military intervention in Syria.
“I very much hope the
United States and other countries … do not try to set a military
scenario in motion in Syria without sanction from the U.N. Security
Council,” Putin said, according to a transcript.
On Iran, he said that “the
growing threat of a military strike on this country alarms Russia, no
doubt. If this occurs, the consequences will be truly catastrophic. It
is impossible to imagine their real scale.“
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