Iran’s foreign minister promises to retaliate for lethal Ukrainian attack

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has vowed to retaliate against Ukraine for its attack on a commercial Iranian ship in the Caspian sea. Araghchi said that the attack, which blew up the ship and killed at least one crew member, violates the UN Charter and “cannot go unanswered”. In a call with the EU’s pro-Israel foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Araghchi also said that Israel was behind the attack to try to “drag Europe into its war”. Ukraine claimed it had attacked a Russian warship. MP Ebrahim Azizi, who heads the Iranian parliament’s national security…

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