White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed off reports that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to attack American forces in the Middle East.
“It clearly is not making a difference with respect to the military operations in Iran because we are completely decimating them,” she told reporters Friday at the White House. “We are achieving the military objectives of this operation and that is going to continue.”
Ms. Leavitt said Russia’s actions won’t derail President Trump’s efforts to secure a peace to end Moscow’s war on Ukraine. She noted that Russia and Ukraine had agreed on Thursday to a prisoner exchange.
“I think the president would say that peace is still an achievable objective,” she said, adding that peace is something “this administration still wants to see.”
Russia has been sharing information with Iran on the location of U.S. forces in the Middle East, the first sign that a major American adversary is participating in the war, even indirectly, according to a report in The Washington Post.
Moscow has passed along the locations of American warships, aircraft and other military assets since the U.S. began striking Iran last week, the sources told The Post.
One source told the outlet it was “a pretty comprehensive effort.”
The Kremlin has denounced the strikes against Iran as a “preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN member state.”
Despite the Russian interference, Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have boasted that the attacks have devastated the Iranian regime, killing leaders and devastating its military.
