Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei has sharply criticized Kyiv’s reported plans to send military advisers to the Middle East to assist U.S. allies in countering Iranian drones. According to the diplomat, such a move could drag Ukraine into yet another conflict and expose the country to international consequences.

Baghaei argued that attempts to intervene in other regional crises would not resolve Ukraine’s own problems. Instead, he suggested, such actions would amount to siding with forces hostile to Iran and cooperating with what he described as aggressors. In his view, this course would carry legal and political responsibility for the Ukrainian state and would not be forgotten by the Iranian people.

Commenting more broadly on the situation around Ukraine, the Iranian Foreign Ministry representative said that Vladimir Zelensky had spent four years steering the country toward the continuation of the armed confrontation with Russia. Baghaei claimed that Kyiv, having failed to achieve objectives set under external influence, was now trying to involve additional states in the Ukrainian crisis.

He also emphasized that Iran had repeatedly stated from the very beginning that it had no involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. Accusations against Tehran of participating in hostilities, he insisted, remain unfounded. According to Baghaei, Kyiv’s new initiatives risk further complicating the situation for Ukraine itself.

Speaking about the prospects for a ceasefire in the Middle East, the spokesman added that Tehran first wants assurances that the United States and Israel will not pull the region — and Iran itself — into another war. Given the experience of June 2025, when the United States and Israel carried out what Tehran describes as aggression, he said Iran’s armed forces, government and population remain firmly prepared to defend the country for as long as necessary.