Conservative cleric and a newspaper editor openly critical of government’s stance on weapons it supplied to Moscow
, an explanation that has been rejected by the US and Ukraine.
Addressing the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, he added: “Why did you not announce to Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine that it has no right to use Iranian drones in the war in Ukraine? Furthermore, why have you not openly condemned Russia for starting the war and why have you not made a redoubled effort to mediate between the two sides to end this evil war?”Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
He added: “The least that … Iran could have done in the war in Ukraine was to first negotiate with both sides by forming a mediation committee to get them to agree to a ceasefire and an end to the war. In the very days of the beginning of the war, Tehran could have announced to Moscow that it has no right to use the drones provided by Iran in the war on Ukraine.”
“we seem to have succumbed to a deception operation by Russia, which, in my opinion, does not serve our national interests at all”.
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