Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday has threatened to attack Ukraine after accusing it of carrying out deadly attack on Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea.
Tehran has condemned Ukraine for carrying out the strike on what it claims was a commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, adding that the explosion killed one sailor and injured another.
After Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the attack, adding that the Iranian vessel was being used to transport Russian ‘military cargo’, Iran’s foreign minister weighed in.
Abbas Araghchi tonight said on X: ‘Zelensky has attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor.
‘A blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel’s behest to drag Europe into its war. In calls with EU High Rep [sic] [Kaja] Kallas and [Russian] FM [Sergei] Lavrov, made clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED.’
Tehran decried the attack on its vessel as an act of aggression and said it would defend its national interests and security, while accusing Kyiv of seeking to expand the war in Ukraine.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran to convey its protest over what it described as a ‘hostile and criminal’ attack.
But shortly after Tehran’s statement last night, Zelensky said that Kyiv had noted Russia was passing on its satellite observations in the Middle East to Iran to enable it to direct strikes in the region amid its war with the US and its Gulf allies.
