WASHINGTON
\nPresident Donald Trump said late on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran \u201cat all,\u201d adding that Moscow and Beijing had \u201ctoo much to lose\u201d if they enabled Tehran. Trump said on Truth Social that he had seen comments from his critics and opponents that China and Russia were \u200chelping Iran.
\n\u201cIf they are, \u200cit\u2019s at a very low level, but \u200cI don\u2019t believe they are at all. They have too much to lose, and we would know about it, and know about it very fast,\u201d Trump wrote. Trump said in July he trusted China and Russia not to help Tehran in the Iran war, but warned that if they did get involved \u201cit would be very bad for them.\u201d
\nThe United States and Iran have been at \u200cwar since February 28 when the \u200cUS and Israel attacked Iran and Tehran responded with its own strikes on \u200cIsrael and Gulf states that host US bases. US-Israeli strikes \u200con Iran and Israeli attacks on Lebanon have since killed thousands and displaced millions.
\nTrump has previously described Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin as \u201cneutral\u201d during the Iran war. Moscow and Beijing maintain close ties \u200cwith Tehran. Russia has said the Iran war could lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Beijing has condemned Washington\u2019s attacks on Tehran as a brazen violation of Iran\u2019s sovereignty.
\nLast month, Trump warned Xi against providing support to Iran when the Chinese leader visited Washington, and received assurances that China would not do so, the US ambassador to China said at the time.
\nThe warning came amid reports that China had supplied Iran with shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers and that Tehran had found ways to evade sanctions on its oil sales with Chinese help. In September, Trump brushed aside a report that Iran acquired satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before an attack that killed three US troops there in July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said late on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran \u201cat all,\u201d adding that Moscow and Beijing had \u201ctoo much to lose\u201d if they enabled Tehran. Trump said on Truth Social that he had seen comments from his critics and opponents that China and Russia were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n