Donald Trump has been criticised by European allies for his strikes in Iran.

15:52, Tue, Mar 17, 2026 Updated: 16:30, Tue, Mar 17, 2026

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Russia has brutally mocked US President Donald Trump over his war in Iran, claiming Tehran has the President "by the throat." The Russian daily paper, Kommersant, reported today: “Trump wanted to strangle Tehran, but he’s tightened the noose around his own neck.”

Russian Editor Steven Rosenberg reports that the publication states: "He messed up, and destroyed everything around him, but he wants someone else to clear the rubble and create a new structure. This is, of course, all about him, Donald Trump. The US president pinned Iran to the wall and practically forced it, for its own survival to block such a key glodal transport artery as the Strait of Hormuz." After doing what the paper calls a "strange political flipflop", it now says that Trump demands that other countries such as the UK, Germany and China engage in solving in the problem in the form of an assault on Iran. "Such a formulation of the question is, of course, phenomenal cheek", it adds, and describes this as a permanent political characteristic of Trump.

The paper belives that Trump met his match with Iran, wanting to "strangle" the authorities it Tehran, accusing the American leader of "tightening ths noose around his own neck," and of those that have nothing to do with the country's attack on Iran.

Roseberg goes on to highlight that Moscow appears to highlight the benefits of what Trump has done.

Kommersant's headline reads 'Ukraine has lost the war in Iran', and goes on to read: "Conflict in the Middle East has weakened the positions of Kyiv and its allies.

Confrontation with Tehran has only strengthened President's Trump's intention to distance himself from Kyiv, support for whom distracts the US from its main battle."

It speculates that if the US-Iran war contuinues, US weapon supplies to Ukraine will be reduced.

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Pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda also appear to relish the thought that NATO may incur problems from an "angry US president."

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