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NEW YORK: Iran鈥檚 president on Monday denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, even as the United States accuses Iran of not only providing the weapons but helping Russia build a plant to manufacture them.
鈥淲e are against the war in Ukraine,鈥� President Ebrahim Raisi said as he met with media executives on the sidelines of the world鈥檚 premier global conference, the high-level leaders鈥� meeting at the UN General Assembly.
The Iranian leader spoke just hours after five Americans who had been held in Iranian custody arrived in Qatar, freed in a deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to unlock nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
Known as a hard-liner, Raisi seemingly sought to strike a diplomatic tone. He reiterated offers to mediate the Russia-Ukraine war despite being one of the Kremlin鈥檚 strongest backers. And he suggested that the just-concluded deal with the United States that led to the prisoner exchange and assets release could 鈥渉elp build trust鈥� between the longtime foes.
Raisi acknowledged that Iran and Russia have long had strong ties, including defense cooperation. But he denied sending weapons to Moscow since the war began. 鈥淚f they have a document that Iran gave weapons or drones to the Russians after the war,鈥� he said, then they should produce it.
Iranian officials have made a series of contradictory comments about the drones. US and European officials say the sheer number of Iranian drones being used in the war in Ukraine shows that the flow of such weapons has not only continued but intensified after hostilities began.
Despite his remarks about trust, Raisi鈥檚 tone toward the United States wasn鈥檛 all conciliatory; he had harsh words at other moments.
Raisi said his country 鈥渟ought good relations with all neighboring countries鈥� in the Middle East, including 萝莉视频 and the United Arab Emirates.
鈥淲e believe that if the Americans stop interfering in the countries of the Arabian Gulf and other regions in the world, and mind their own business 鈥� the situation of the countries and their relations will improve,鈥� Raisi said.
The United Arab Emirates first sought to reengage diplomatically with Tehran after attacks on ships off their coasts that were attributed to Iran. 萝莉视频, with Chinese mediation, reached a d茅tente in March to re-establish diplomatic ties after years of tensions, including over the kingdom鈥檚 war on Yemen, Riyadh鈥檚 opposition to Syrian President Bashar Assad and fears over Iran鈥檚 nuclear program.
Raisi warned other countries in the region not to get too close with US ally Israel, saying: 鈥淭he normalization of relations with the Zionist regime does not create security.鈥�
As a prosecutor, Raisi took part in the 1988 mass executions that killed some 5,000 dissidents in Iran.
The Iranian leader was dismissive of Western criticism of his country鈥檚 treatment of women, its crackdown on dissent and its nuclear program, including over protests that began just over a year ago over the death in police custody last year of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested for allegedly violating Iran鈥檚 mandatory headscarf law.
He compared the protests in Iran to labor strikes and demonstrations by ethnic minorities in the United States and Western Europe. He noted that many people are killed each year in the US at the hands of police, and criticized the media for not focusing on those deaths as much as the treatment of demonstrators in his country. The deaths of Americans at the hands of police are widely covered in US media.
Raisi has sought, without evidence, to portray the popular nationwide demonstrations in Iran as a Western plot.
鈥淭he issue(s) of women, hijab, human rights and the nuclear issue,鈥� he said, 鈥渁re all pretexts by the Americans and Westerners to damage the Islamic republic as an independent country.鈥�