Iranian and Azerbaijani warships take part in a joint military exercise in the Caspian Sea, Nov. 4, 2024. (Credit: Iranian Army/WANA via Reuters)
This is an unprecedented theater of operations in the war with the Islamic Republic. On Saturday, July 25, an Iranian ship was struck in the Caspian Sea by a Ukrainian attack. Tehran denounced a "hostile and criminal act" that caused an explosion aboard a merchant vessel, killing one sailor and injuring another, and summoned the Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Tehran.For his part, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed what he described as very good results from long-range strikes targeting "ships used for transporting military cargo connected to Iran, as well as a warship." Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with his European Union counterpart, Kaja Kallas, calling for a "firm response" from Brussels and the U.N. Security Council. Why is Kyiv now making the risky bet of confronting...
This is an unprecedented theater of operations in the war with the Islamic Republic. On Saturday, July 25, an Iranian ship was struck in the Caspian Sea by a Ukrainian attack. Tehran denounced a "hostile and criminal act" that caused an explosion aboard a merchant vessel, killing one sailor and injuring another, and summoned the Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Tehran.For his part, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed what he described as very good results from long-range strikes targeting "ships used for transporting military cargo connected to Iran, as well as a warship." Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with his European Union counterpart, Kaja Kallas, calling for a "firm response" from Brussels and the U.N. Security Council. Why is Kyiv now making the risky bet of confronting...
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