, The chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces warned Washington on April 3 that taking military action against Iran would be a “serious political error” and would not benefit the United States.
”The United States has a deployment of troops in the region which is capable of carrying out strikes on Iranian territory, but such action would be a serious political error,” said Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, according to the Interfax news agency.
”It is certainly possible to inflict damage on the military and industrial potential of Iran but that would not signify a victory, (because) there would be repercussions across the whole world.”
Washington recently increased its naval presence in the Gulf to two aircraft carriers, the largest such deployment since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
It denies planning attacks on Iran. But in February, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said that “all options remain on the table” in trying to stop the Islamic republic build nuclear weapons.
Tehran has denied allegations that its civilian nuclear energy program is a cover for secretly developing nuclear weapons.
