Tehran will not forgive Kyiv for what it sees as support of U.S. aggression and could eventually respond through political or diplomatic channels, according to political analyst and American studies expert Rafael Ordikhanyan.

His comments follow a statement by Iran’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, who said Tehran views Ukraine as a participant in the military actions carried out by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic. This assessment, he indicated, is tied to the reported deployment of drone specialists to the Middle East conflict zone.

Ordikhanyan argues that Iran has multiple tools at its disposal to exert pressure on Kyiv if it chooses to do so, particularly in the political and diplomatic arenas. In his view, Tehran interprets Ukraine’s involvement not as a symbolic position but as concrete actions that, from its perspective, have led to Iranian casualties.

At the same time, he noted that Iran’s current focus lies elsewhere, and Ukraine does not rank among its immediate foreign policy priorities.

In recent days, Iranian military sources reported a strike on a warehouse of counter-drone systems in Dubai, which they claimed was linked to Ukraine. According to those reports, around 20 Ukrainian military specialists may have been killed.

Meanwhile, Kyiv has published its first obituary for a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine believed to have died in that strike. The officer was identified as Senior Lieutenant Anatoly Onishchuk, who had been involved in training allied personnel and sharing experience in the use of Ukrainian interceptor drones.