TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday warned that his country would respond to a deadly attack by Ukraine on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea. It came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had carried out long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea against vessels transporting military cargo involving Iran, underscoring the increasingly international dimensions of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry said that this attack violates Section 4 Article 2 of the UN Charter and constitutes an act of aggression

Iran's ministry of foreign affairs has accused Ukraine of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea this morning, killing one sailor and injuring another