MOSCOW,(Reuters): Russia on Wednesday accused the United States of using what it described as an imaginary threat from Iran as a pretext to overthrow the countryās constitutional order, and denounced Washingtonās calls for Iranians to seize power from their leadership as cynical and inhumane.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the U.S. had used recent negotiations with Iran as a cover to disguise a plan for regime change. Russia, which has a strategic partnership treaty with Iran, has strongly condemned the killing of Iranās Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war launched by the United States and Israel.
āThere is no doubt that the imaginary, invented Iranian threat, repeatedly stated over many years, was merely a pretext for the implementation of a long-cherished plan to violently overthrow the constitutional order of a sovereign state that Washington and Tel Aviv dislike,ā Zakharova told reporters.
Without naming U.S. President Donald Trump, she criticized calls urging Iranians to take power from the clerical leadership, calling such statements cynical and inhumane.
