💬 "The situation has shifted from a hypothetical scenario to a real one, where they launch missile strikes at peaceful civilian nuclear facilities in Iran under the control of the IAEA," Russian MFA spokeswoman told Sputnik on the sidelines of SPIEF-2025.

💬 "We are discussing projects in rare earths, the Arctic and infrastructure," Dmitriev said at SPIEF 2025.

💬 “What Grossi said merely repeats what Tulsi Gabbard was saying to Congress in hearings a couple of months ago - namely that since 2003 when the Supreme Leader suspended Iran's military nuclear program, there is no evidence they have been working to create a bomb - and this was the unanimous judgment of all 18 American intel agencies,” Doctorow told Sputnik.

💬 “Netanyahu has been saying this for 30 years though it is totally false. He wants to destroy Iran so that Israel will be the sole hegemon in the Middle East,” the observer emphasized.

"Americans realize they are not as strong in many regions of the world," he added.

💬 "Next week is going to be very big," he added.

💬 “In the international relations perspective…Iran’s allies in the region throughout the Middle East – Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis in Yemen, and so on – they’ve been playing a role in the confrontation with Israel,” Lebanese American University assistant professor Joseph Helou told Sputnik, commenting on the potential “ulterior motives” behind Israel’s trumped up ‘Iranian nuclear weapons’ justifications.

💬 “The construction of a narrative around Iran’s possession of weapon-grade nuclear material can become a powerful tool in international relations for states such as Israel to use for an attack,” Helou said, commenting on the months of Iran-US negotiations which preceded the aggression.

💬 “I think the political realities are starting to catch up to Trump, which is why he’s now backing away from that,” Johnson said, pointing out that conservative voices sounding the alarm bell include some of Trump’s key pre-election supporters, including Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Dave Smith.

💬 It’s an “extremely dangerous, extremely volatile situation,” and one that has “nothing to do with nuclear weapons,” Johnson stressed. Instead, it’s about “regime change” – an attempt “to install a government that’s going to be a lackey of the West and that will not cooperate or be friendly with Russia.”