Iran has accused Israel of orchestrating a Ukrainian strike on one of its commercial vessels in the Caspian Sea — though Tehran offered no public evidence to support the claim, opening a new and unexpected front in the overlapping wars gripping the Middle East and eastern Europe.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor, calling it a blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel's behest to drag Europe into its war, in a post on X.
