Iran accuses President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of speculating on Iranian drones to secure more Western arms

Iran has accused President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy of anti-Iranian propaganda in his call to halt the supply of drones to Russia. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said that Zelensky's comments were designed to attract more arms and financial aid from allies - Reuters.

On May 24, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an evening address that Russia had used about 1,160 Iranian-made Shahed drones against Ukraine, and the Ukrainian military had shot down almost 900 of them.

Zelenskyy addressed the people of Iran and said that Iranians "could live very differently if they were not put on the same side as such evil as Russian aggression."

"The simple question is this: what is your interest in being an accomplice to Russian terror? Why are you on the side of an evil state? The world sees what is happening, and you all in Iran see it. Support for evil cannot be denied. Why are there such cynical killings of Iran? By Russia's hands, but with your, your weapons. What do you, the people in Tehran, or in Shiraz, or Saqqez, or in any other city in your country, get from this?" Zelenskyy said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani accused Zelenskyy of lying, wanting to attract weapons and finance from Western countries, and said that Ukraine refused to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations against Iran.

"The Ukrainian president's repeat of delusional claims against the Islamic Republic of Iran is in line with the anti-Iranian propaganda and media war aimed at attracting as many arms and financial aid as possible from Western countries," Kanaani said.