The source of the Nour News portal regarded the statements of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine as a hidden recognition of Kiev's involvement in the drone attack on the Iranian Defense Ministry facility in IsfahanTEHRAN, January 30.
/tass/. The Iranian authorities may change their policy regarding the conflict in Ukraine if Kiev does not correct the statements of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak about the attack on the facility of the Ministry of Defense of the Islamic Republic in Isfahan. This was reported on Monday by the Nour News portal with reference to an Iranian official.
"If the hostile statements of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, to Iran are not corrected by the official authorities of this country, this may lead to a reaction from Iran," the source told Nour News.
The source of the portal recalled that Iran has repeatedly stressed the need for a ceasefire in Ukraine and a settlement of the conflict through dialogue. "The government of Ukraine, which provoked its Western partners on the basis of false allegations that Iran allegedly supported Russia with weapons, has not yet been able to provide any documents confirming these allegations," he said.
The source of Nour News regarded Podolyak's statements as a hidden recognition of Ukraine's involvement in the drone attack on the Iranian Defense Ministry facility in Isfahan. "Ukraine's focus on the threat to Iran's national security may become the basis for studying Iran's changing position on the conflict in Ukraine and adopting a new approach consistent with Kiev's behavior," the official added.
On January 29, the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, distributed a message on Twitter in which he once again accused Iran of supplying drones to the combat zone in Ukraine and indirectly acknowledged Kiev's involvement in the strike on Isfahan: "Ukraine warned you." As the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, after that, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador of Ukraine to Tehran. The diplomat was asked to explain Podolyak's statements. Later, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani Chafi called Podolyak's statements suspicious, and also demanded official and clear explanations from Kiev. In this regard, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko said that the agency has no information about the causes of the explosion in Isfahan.
In August 2022, The Washington Post published an article claiming that Iran was supplying its drones to Russia. Later, the European Union and the United States imposed sanctions against a number of Iranian individuals and legal entities allegedly connected with the supply of drones. Moscow and Tehran have repeatedly denied allegations about the supply of Iranian drones to Russia for their use in Ukraine. The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called such messages stuffing and stressed that the Russian army uses drones of domestic production.
