Iran recalls that it has not recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea

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Jan. 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, recalled on Thursday that, despite the 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 chain TRT that Tehran has not recognized the recent annexations of Kherson and Zaporizhia, as well as those of Donetsk and Lugansk proclaimed by the Russian Duma in October.

“We are opposed to the war and we 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 has also alluded to the protests in Iran when asked for his opinion about the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini for wearing the veil badly while 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 information” exaggerated “.

Amirabdolahian has affirmed that all this provoked “peaceful protests” that, with “Western intervention”, especially from countries such as the United States or the United Kingdom -which incited citizens to “reveal” and even “kill police officers”- became “violent”.

“The West applies policies of double standards. Who would have imagined that the death of a girl would attract so much attention from the West,” he said, referring, instead, to the deaths of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli Army.