On Monday, Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei warned that his country will respond to the attack carried out by Ukraine against an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea that killed one sailor and injured another. Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araqchi denounced before the international community that Ukraine had acted at Israel’s instigation in the attack on the Iranian ship. In calls with EU High Representative Kallas and Russian Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, made clear that what the freeloader in Kiev CANNOT GO UNANSWERED,” he said. The Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry summoned Ukraine’s charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest the attack on a merchant vessel. In response to Iran’s protests, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrii Sybiha also justified the incident by arguing that Iran has been supplying weapons to Russia since the beginning of the special military operation.