VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France — The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas accused Russia of supplying Iran with intelligence that has helped Tehran target U.S. military assets in the Middle East.
“We see that Russia is helping Iran with intelligence to target Americans, to kill Americans,” Kaja Kallas told journalists as foreign ministers from the G7 met south of Paris. “Russia is also supporting Iran now with the drones so that they can attack neighboring countries and also U.S. military bases.”
At least 13 U.S. service members have been killed since the United States and Israel started military strikes on Iran that plunged the Middle East into conflict. The Mideast war is expected to dominate the two days of G7 ministerial talks, which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to join Friday.
Kallas said that Russia’s support of Iran shows why Europe needs to keep up the pressure on the Kremlin with respect to the war in Ukraine.
“If America wants the war in the Middle East to stop, Iran to stop attacking them, they should also put the pressure on Russia so that they are not able to help them in this,” she said.
Europeans have grown more critical of the U.S. decision to strike Iran and the ensuing spike in global energy prices. Earlier Thursday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Berlin was ready to support peace efforts in Iran, but warned that he saw no clear exit strategy for the conflict.
The Iran conflict “is a real huge risk for rising and increasing instability in the region, and that has always an impact, as we know from history, for the entire world,” Pistorius said.
Russia sharing intelligence with Iran to help ‘kill Americans,’ says EU’s top diplomat
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