Foreign Ministry Slams US for Spreading Lies about Iran Ties with Russia
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman slammed the US for spreading lies about what it calls Tehran’s support for the Russian war in Ukraine.
“Lying is a common practice among the US statesmen for turning the reality upside down for evil purposes,” Nasser Kanaani wrote in a post on his Twitter account on Thursday.
He added that at the beginning of US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s trip to occupied Palestine, he accused Iran of backing the “massacre” of the Ukrainian people, referring to the US official’s claim of Iran’s plan to provide Russia with drones amid the war on Ukraine.
The US National Security adviser on Monday claimed that Washington had received “information” indicating that Iran was preparing to provide Russia with “up to several hundred UAVs, including weapons-capable UAVs on an expedited timeline.”
Kanaani on Tuesday reacted to the claim, saying cooperation between Iran and Russia in the field of some modern technologies has nothing to do with Ukraine and goes, in fact, back to before the commencement of the Russian war.
In a Wednesday interview with the Italian newspaper la Repubblica, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian expressed his country’s opposition to the war between Russia and Ukraine, vowing to continue efforts to help bring about a ceasefire during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s scheduled visit to Tehran.
“Since the beginning of the conflict, we clearly announced our position, and by that, I mean we are against Russia’s military action in Ukraine,” Amirabdollahian said.
In another part of his statement, the Iranian spokesperson censured the US for keeping up “unconditional” support for Israel as the “most murderous” regime in the world.
“... Sullivan accompanied (US President Joe) Biden to Tel Aviv to reinforce America’s commitment to unconditional support for the world’s most murderous child-killing regime,” Kanani added.