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Russia accused the United States connected Wednesday (March 4, 2026) of utilizing an imaginary menace from Iran as a pretext to overthrow its law order, and said Washington’s calls for Iranians to prehend powerfulness from their leaders were cynical and inhumane.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the U.S. had utilized negotiations with Iran, which were taking spot arsenic precocious arsenic past week, as a screen to disguise a program for authorities alteration there.
Russia has a strategical concern pact with Iran and President Vladimir Putin has condemned what helium called the cynical execution of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed connected the archetypal time of the warfare launched by the U.S. and Israel connected Saturday (February 27, 2026).
“There is nary uncertainty that the imaginary, invented Iranian threat, repeatedly stated implicit galore years, was simply a pretext for the implementation of a long-cherished program to violently overthrow the law bid of a sovereign state... that Washington and Tel Aviv dislike,” Ms. Zakharova told reporters.
Without mentioning U.S. President Donald Trump by name, Mr. Zakharova alluded to his telephone for Iranians to instrumentality powerfulness from the clerical leadership.
“It is adjacent much cynical and inhumane to perceive calls for the Iranians to prehend power, arsenic the West says, erstwhile the West is virtually tearing ripping these hands from the Iranians,” she said.
