Ali Bigdeli, an expert on international affairs, said that Westerners are afraid of any harsh action or reaction from Russia, and for this reason, Washington and London should move in a way that will cause them the least amount of cost from Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the assassination of the head of the Hamas politburo was an attempt to provoke Iran and that Iran will never submit to provocative actions.
Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini, a senior energy expert, said that currently Russia does not have the right conditions to sell gas due to the specific political conditions, the war in Ukraine, sanctions and rising tensions with the Westerners.
Alikber Alikberov, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has said that Moscow is using Tehran’s way of dealing with sanctions.
Iran’s Member of Parliament, Abolfazl Abu Torabi, has said that for Westerners, human rights are a dual policy and a tool, and they play with this dual and contradictory card.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has fully dismissed the Western states' claim that Iran intends to build nuclear weapons and said that the high-level enrichment was a response to the Westerners reneging on their promises.
Abdolreza Farajirad, an expert on international relations, has said that Iran and the U.S. are expected to start working on a follow-up oral deal after reaching an agreement to swap prisoners.
Secretary General of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Abdul Malik Badreddin al-Houthi has strongly slammed the West for its corrupt ideology while emphasizing that there is an ignorance in the Western culture moral virtues and human excellence.
The former Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan has said that Tehran hopes that the Republic of Azerbaijan will not play in the court of the Westerners and Israel and will not give the opportunity to destroy its relations with Iran to the Zionist regime.
Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has criticized Western states for their disrespect for human rights, describing them as “enemies of humankind”.
