Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, has blamed Western influences for the crisis engulfing Eastern Europe. Khamenei said today, that Ukraine fell victim to American policies aimed at creating instability in the world.
Khamenei cited Washington’s influence as the “root cause” of the current military conflict in Ukraine.
According to rt.com:
In a series of statements published on Tuesday both by Iranian media and on the supreme leader’s Twitter page, Khamenei said the “US dragged Ukraine to where it is now.”
Among Washington’s actions that he thinks led to the military confrontation with Russia were America’s alleged interference in the Eastern European nation’s “internal affairs” in the form of “creating color revolutions and toppling one government and putting another in power.”
Khamenei noted that Iran “supports ending the war in Ukraine.”
For years now, Iran has been languishing under sweeping sanctions imposed by the US and its Western allies, mostly over its nuclear program.
It’s hardly surprising to hear an Iranian leader lay the blame for the situation in Ukraine squarely at the feet of the West, but Khamenei is right to highlight the US sponsored coup in Ukraine in 2014 and the part it is playing in the current crisis.
