Iran’s foreign ministry warned on Monday of “unforeseen” consequences following Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea over the weekend. “This action by Ukraine was an absolutely illegal and unjustified act, contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, as well as a dangerous act of adventurism that will certainly not go unanswered by us,” the ministry’s spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a weekly press briefing. The consequences of Ukraine’s action “will certainly be unforeseen,” he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Kyiv had carried out long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea against vessels transporting military cargo involving Iran.
Iran said the attack had caused the Iranian ship “to explode, killing one sailor and injuring several others,” and warned that it would respond. “The Ukrainian regime must certainly be held accountable for it,” Baqaei said.
The obvious question here is how Ukrainians were able to hit an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea in the first place. It is no simple thing for Ukraine to track down a specific ship far away from its borders, and would require intelligence and satellite data which the US would be in a position to provide. Seems that it’s pretty clear that the US put Ukraine up to this.