Moscow, Russia. Russia accused the United States of using what it called an invented threat from Iran as a pretext to overthrow Iran’s constitutional order. The Foreign Ministry said U.S. calls for Iranians to take power from their leaders were cynical and inhumane.
Claims of regime-change plans
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters that negotiations with Iran, which she said were taking place as recently as last week, were used as cover to disguise a plan for regime change.
Zakharova said there was “no doubt” the Iranian threat repeatedly cited over many years was a pretext for implementing a long-cherished plan to violently overthrow the constitutional order of a sovereign state that “Washington and Tel Aviv” dislike.
References to U.S. statements
Without naming U.S. President Donald Trump, Zakharova alluded to his call for Iranians to take power from the clerical leadership.
“It is even more cynical and inhumane to hear calls for the Iranians to seize power, as the West says, when the West is literally tearing ripping these hands from the Iranians,” she said.
Russia-Iran ties and Putin comments
Russia has a strategic partnership treaty with Iran. President Vladimir Putin condemned what he described as the cynical murder of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of a war launched by the United States and Israel on Saturday.
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