Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that a Ukrainian\nmilitary strike on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea\n\u2018cannot go unanswered\u2019, escalating tensions between the two nations.\nAraghchi accused Ukraine of acting \u2018on Israel\u2019s orders\u2019 and described\nthe attack as a blatant violation of the United Nations Charter.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry reported that the Ukrainian strike caused the\ncommercial ship to explode, killing one sailor and injuring another.\nAraghchi took to social media to directly address Ukrainian President\nVolodymyr Zelensky, stating: \u2018Zelensky has attacked an Iranian\ncommercial ship and killed a sailor.\u2019<\/p>\n
Araghchi claimed he had conveyed Iran\u2019s position during separate\nphone calls with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Russian Foreign\nMinister Sergey Lavrov. \u2018In talks with EU High Representative Kallas and\nForeign Minister Lavrov, it was stressed that the actions of the\nparasite in Kyiv cannot go unanswered,\u2019 he asserted.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Iran summoned the Ukrainian charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires in Tehran\nto formally protest the military strike. On the same day, President\nZelensky announced via social media that Ukraine had achieved \u2018very\nstrong results\u2019 through long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea, targeting\nvessels used for military cargo shipments involving Iran, as well as a\nwarship. Ukraine\u2019s SBU intelligence service stated that drone strikes\nwere carried out against an internationally sanctioned cargo ship used\nto transport military cargo between Iran and Russia. Iranian\nauthorities, in their protest, maintained that Tehran has never\ninterfered in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/iran-warns-ukraine-attack-on-commercial-ship-cannot-go-unanswered-1785124336", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }