Reacting to the European Council’s statement, Esmaeil Baqaei said at a press conference in Tehran on Monday that the allegation was nothing more than a repeated claim.
He noted that since the very beginning of the Ukraine conflict, Iran has declared that the problems should be resolved through dialogue and that Tehran neither intervened in the war before nor is intervening now.
It is completely unreasonable to expect a country to cut its relations with Russia simply because it maintains ties with Moscow, the Iranian spokesman added.
Baqaei emphasized that Iran-Russia relations are no way meant hostility toward other countries.
The European countries should look at their own behavior and consider why Europe’s security has been put at risk as a result of NATO’s hostile actions, he added, stressing that they must be held accountable for their conduct and stop the process of leveling accusations against others.