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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on July 26 vowed to respond against Ukraine for a deadly attack on a commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea that the minister claimed was carried out “at Israel’s behest.”
In a statement, the foreign ministry of the Islamic Republic said the “hostile and criminal” attack caused the ship “to explode, killing one sailor and injuring several others.” The Islamic Republic “has never intervened in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine,” the ministry added.
According to state media, the ministry also summoned Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran to convey its protest of the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack that Kyiv struck “vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran” in the Caspian Sea.
Israel’s Channel 12 later reported that the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel informed it that the vessels were transporting Iranian weapons to Russia to aid it in its war on Ukraine.
Araghchi, in a post on X, said the “freeloader” Zelensky had “attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor. A blatant United Nations Charter violation done at Israel’s behest to drag Europe into its war.”
The minister added that, in calls with his European Union counterpart Kaja Kallas and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, the Iranian foreign minister “made clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED.”
Araghchi’s warning was echoed by a senior Iranian lawmaker, who said Ukraine could face retaliation for the deadly attack in the Caspian Sea.
Ebrahim Azizi, the head of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said in a post on X that the United States and Israel were well aware that “any attack on Iran always comes with a cost, and that remains true today.” He added that “Ukraine, too, may soon come to understand that Iran does not let actions go unanswered.”
“The list of those who have miscalculated continues to increase!” Azizi concluded.
Iran’s latest warnings indicate that the Islamic Republic will indeed respond. This is unsurprising, considering that Tehran has long maintained a policy of responding directly to attacks on its territory or people — a stance that has never been limited to its conflict with the U.S. and Israel.
Iran already has missiles and drones capable of reaching Ukrainian territory. In cease of a direct strike, Black Sea ports are the most likely targets. The Islamic Republic could also attempt to target Ukrainian commercial vessels sailing near its waters, in the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Oman.
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if mother russia does not have cujones to strike the nazis hard, mother persia will
mother russia has the cojones, putin not.
putler is a jewish pig, and if slavs were anything more than slaves, they would have hanged the pig born of the jewish sow shelomova on the traffic light.
if putin is so soft to respond, he should supply iran with long range ballistic missile oreshnik to hit kiev in day light and smash the maidan staff
…great idea! today the hazelnut meets kyiv, tomorrow moscow!
…think about why moscow did not support tehran in the development of an atomic bomb!
…in such countries you do not know today what will happen tomorrow! venezuela lets greetings!
i beg your pardon, there are chosen galore within this ‘maidan staff’ that you quote.
they’re off limits, period. dick playing chosenite pianists are recently u.n. accredited living world heritage sites. 💩
ahhh, yes. here it comes, the open door to the iran conflict for nato. getting closer to showing that both are not just simultaneous, but very much connected. soon they will drop all pretenses. turkiye, azer and armenia will be the first to go…but where? down the drain with the u.s. or will they wake up and turn on them?
irán má vlastné rakety, ktoré môže použiť na odplatu fašistom v kyjeve. teraz iba potrebuje, aby mu rusko dalo správne súradnice. a to sa myslím stane v dohľadnej dobe, keď už všetci budú v presvedčení, že nič sa nedeje. asi tak to vidím ja osobne. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier.
o palácio mariyinsky de kiev voe pelos ares.
the iranian admin would be better served taking their wrath out on us bases and the isreali apartheid regime since the attack was instigated by them. ukraine is done. let the russian admin mop up the problem. it’s just a matter of time before the ukraine problem goes away. getting side-tracked now would only take eyes off the ball.
bjs are the most important part of zelensky’s foreign policy.
oh dear, no ukie ship will ever sail through hormuz or the red sea again! or the suez canal! enjoy the extra 30 day scenic trips through the med and the coast of africa!
they could expand the blockades of the two waterways to include any country that supplies ukraine with military equipment. that would impact every country in the eu.
iran is now the one imposing sanctions.
an ugly traitorous scoundrel named putler is responsible for this shit that dump is now doing with iran. i hope that finland manages to liberate all of karelia and that a new simo häyhä will be born. syria’s betrayal must be paid for with russian blood and the return of crimea to ukraine.
the joo terror in itaq, libya, syria, gaza, lebanon and iran must be paid for with every drop of joo blood. and their goy whores.
show us on the doll where this “putler” hurt you..
b b gave the order/ today he will tell mafia don what his next step is so sad
like it or not, hitler called this the jewish problem. maybe you understand now.