Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian has recalled on Thursday that despite good relations between Tehran and Moscow, the country respected Ukraine’s sovereignty and did not recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Amirabdolahian has assured in an interview with the Turkish TRT channel that Tehran has also not recognized the recent annexations of Kherson and Zaporiyia, as well as those of Donetsk and Lugansk proclaimed by the Russian Duma in October.
«We oppose war and are focused on finding political solutions. We consider the provocative actions of NATO and Western countries to be the main cause of the war,» he added.
On the other hand, the Iranian foreign minister also alluded to the protests in Iran when asked about his opinion on the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini for improperly wearing the veil in police custody.
«We were all saddened by the death of that Iranian woman (Amini). The people of Iran are also affected by emotions,» he said, after which he hastened to say that «the Western media published ‘exaggerated’ information.»
Amirabdolahian affirmed that all this provoked «peaceful protests» which, with «Western intervention», especially from countries such as the United States or the United Kingdom – which incited citizens to «revolt» and even «kill policemen» – turned «violent».
«Who would have imagined that the death of a girl would attract so much attention from the West,» he said, referring, by contrast, to the deaths of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli army.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
