Some Middle Eastern countries may be helping US, Israeli aggression — Iranian diplomat

TUNIS, April 3. /TASS/. Some Middle Eastern countries may be complicit in US and Israeli aggression against Iran, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stated, posting photos on his X page of fragments of a drone shot down over the country. According to the diplomat, the downed UAV is neither American nor Israeli. "This drone was downed by our brave armed forces over <…> Shiraz," he emphasized. "It could be another hard evidence of the direct participation and active complicity of some states of the region in the US and Israel crime of aggression and war crimes against Iran," the spokesman pointed out. He also demanded explanations from "either of the two states of the region" that, according to him, use this type of drone. The United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran on February 28. Major Iranian cities, including Tehran, were struck. The White House justified the attack by citing alleged missile and nuclear threats from Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a retaliatory operation, targeting sites in Israel. US military bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were also hit. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some other key Iranian leaders were killed in the joint US-Israeli attack.