According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskova, the regime in Iran is unacceptable and the killing of the Iranian supreme spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would open Pandora’s cabinet. Peskov said in an interview with Sky News published on Friday, writes TASR.
Kremlin spokesman said Russia would respond to Khamenei’s killing “very negative”.
Declaration of Israeli Minister
Israeli Defense Minister Jisrael Kac said on Thursday that Iran’s highest spiritual leader after an Iranian attack on a hospital in the south of Israel “can no longer exist”. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt later said US President Donald Trump will decide on a military attack on Iran over the next two weeks. Trump said on Tuesday that the United States is not planning to liquidate Ayatollah Khamenei.
“The situation is extremely tense and dangerous not only for the region, but globally,” Peskov said during an interview in St. Petersburg. “The extension of the composition of the participants of the conflict is potentially even more dangerous,” Kremlin spokesman continued. In his words, this would only lead to “another circle of confrontations and escalation of tension in the region”.
Close relations of Moscow and Tehran
Russia maintains close relations with Iran, which deepened since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and in January this year, Moscow and Tehran concluded an agreement on strategic partnership.
“(Changing the regime in Iran) is unimaginable. It should be unacceptable, just to talk about it should be unacceptable to everyone,” Peskov said, according to Sky News, this was a hidden allusion to Washington.
Peskov refused to say what steps Russia would have taken in the event of killing Chamenei, and said it would trigger an action “inside Iran”.
Radicalization risks in Iran
“It would lead to the birth of extremist moods inside Iran and those who talk about (killing Chamenei) should remember it. They will open Pandora’s cabinet,” he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that he could act as an intermediary in the Iran-Israeli conflict, which Trump said on Wednesday that the Kremlin chief should first “convey his own conflict”, hinting a war in Ukraine. Peskov denied that the words of the US President were offensive and said that Trump had “a unique way of speech and his unique language”. “We are quite tolerant and we expect everyone to be tolerant of us,” he said.
Trump’s efforts for a ceasefire
Sky News recalls that Trump has been trying to end the war in Ukraine since returning to the White House, but even after two rounds of Russian-Ukrainian talks, the ceasefire has not been achieved. Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine in recent times and continues to reject the call of Kiev to a 30-day ceasefire. “We now have a strategic advantage. Why should we lose it? We won’t lose it. We’re moving forward and moving forward,” Peskov said.
