Fierce was Russia’s verbal reaction, after the death of the ayatollah and the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, a close ally of Moscow.
The Russian president described the event as a “cynical murder”, denouncing the violation of all human morality and International Law, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
At the same time, he expressed his condolences to the president of Iran, .
The first sample of the harsh Russian reaction came yesterday from the vice president of the Russian Security Council and former president of Russia, . In a post on Telegram, he launched a direct attack on Donald Trump, stressing that .
Medvedev accused the negotiations with Tehran of a sham, arguing that “everyone knew that there was no real intention of an agreement”.
At the same time, he made a historical parallel about the duration of states: “The USA is only 249 years old. The Persian Empire was founded 2,500 years ago. The question is who has the patience to wait for the opponent’s ignominious end. We’ll see what happens in 100 years…,” he wrote, leaving clear pointers for the future of US-Iranian relations.
