DUBAI, November 18. /PAW/. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei has placed the responsibility for the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis on the United States and other Western countries.

“We have never been a party to the Ukrainian conflict. We are convinced that the involvement of Western countries in the conflict, in particular the United States, was one of the reasons for its escalation. We insist on a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the conflict. the crisis from its parties We calls on external actors to stop fueling this confrontation,” he told a briefing.

Since 2022, the US and the EU have imposed several sanctions packages against Iran for its alleged military supplies to Russia. Both Russian and Iranian authorities have repeatedly denied these allegations. Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov criticized reports of Iran’s deliveries of ballistic missiles and drones to Russia as untrue.