ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – US President Donald Trump on Monday rejected claims that China and Russia have been providing support for Iran, arguing that they have “too much to lose.”

Trump’s remarks came in response to what he said were claims by his opposition that Russia and China are helping Iran, adding that even if they are, “it’s at a very low level, but I don’t believe they are at all.”

Russia and China are both key allies of Iran, though both countries have largely stayed out of the US-Iran conflict. “They have too much to lose,” the US president said in a post on Truth Social.

Iran has provided significant support for the Russian war effort, supplying Moscow with Shahed drones that have been used on the front lines in Ukraine.

In July, Trump said Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping had promised not to give or sell weapons to Iran. Beijing is Tehran’s biggest trading partner and its leading oil buyer.

The chinese leader visited Washington in October, where Trump warned him against providing support for Iran, amid reports of Tehran acquiring shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers, while Tehran also sold its oil and evaded sanctions with Chinese help.

He said he trusted both countries to stay out of the conflict and “it would be very bad for them,” if they decided otherwise.

Trump announced Friday that he had spoken by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and agreed to allow Moscow to release large amounts of diesel onto global markets, following a global diesel crisis that Trump has blamed the war in Ukraine for.