White House rhetoric on Iran as "emotional response"

Moscow hopes the tensions between the White House, Iran and China will not have any international consequences.

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Wednesday, 08.02.2017.

09:14

White House rhetoric on Iran as
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White House rhetoric on Iran as "emotional response"

Churkin spoke ahead of a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the broadcaster said.

"Washington and Moscow have differences in a number of areas, including on the role of Iran. I believe that some of the rhetoric on Iran might have been influenced by emotions rather than rational policy-making and cold, hard facts. In international life, you have to differentiate between your emotions, what you want to see and what you have the right to expect from another country,” he said.

Churkin stressed that he was "surprised to hear even American experts speaking on CNN" saying that Iran's launches of ballistic missiles were violation of bans by the UN Security Council.

"Those bans were there before, all those bans were lifted. The UNSC resolution only calls on Iran not to conduct tests of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons but does not impose any ban. So it’s just a call, not a prohibition. Technically or legally you cannot argue that they are violating any kind of a prohibition,” Churkin said.

Churkin believes that the existing tension between the US and Iran would not result in a full-blown military conflict, although it could possibly influence US-Russian ties, RT said.

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