On March 4, Alyaksandr Lukashenka met with Iran’s ambassador to Belarus Alireza Sanei. He commented on the situation in the Middle East and said that the “treacherous attack by Israel with the support of the United States” on Iran is unacceptable.
“The treacherous attack by Israel with the support of the United States of America on Iran is understandable to us and unacceptable, especially since innocent residents, and above all children, were killed as a result of this attack,” Lukashenka said.
It should be noted that just a day earlier, in his condolences to Iran’s president over the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Lukashenka did not mention the United States or Israel.
Lukashenka described the deceased Khamenei as a humanist and said what happened to him was unacceptable.
“Iran’s spiritual leader Ali Khamenei has died. You know that I had good relations with him. In my opinion, we met with him three times and discussed global issues. This is a humanist, a person not connected with the military, focused on protecting his people and his state. Therefore, what happened to him, to his family and, even worse, to his wife, who died from her wounds, is absolutely unacceptable to me,” he said.
At the meeting with Sanei, Lukashenka called Iran a friendly country and said Belarus adheres to peace.
“Mr. Ambassador, I want you to understand that our meeting today is not symbolic. We are sufficiently informed about what is happening in the Middle East, including in Iran, which is friendly to us. You know that Belarus has always adhered and continues to adhere to peace. Wars are unacceptable to us simply on a genetic level, because Belarus, being at the epicenter of all wars, has come to understand their essence well. We lost millions and millions of people in all the wars that took place in our region. And most of the world wars rolled eastward and back through our Belarus,” Lukashenka said.
