Russian official: US claims on Iran being a threat to Europe hollow

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said the US claims that Iran is a threat to European security is hollow and senseless. Talking to a Russian weekly, he stressed that Russian experts believed that the reasons provided by Washington to prove their claims were baseless. He noted that it was only too clear that the US missile system was designed to target Russia and China and were thus a threat to these two countries. Patrushev further said that despite Moscow’s insistence, the Americans have so far declined from providing Moscow with legal warrantees that the European missile system will not target Russia. The US has indulged in installing missile systems in Europe under the false claim of trying to confront missile threats. The Russian president has recently warned the US on the outcomes of such an act, saying that his country may consider installing missiles in Kaliningrad.