Ukraine news - live: Russia and Iran plan to ‘quash western interference’

Top security officials from Russia and Iran have discussed measures to quash so-called “western interference” in their internal affairs, reports say.

Tehran’s leading security official Ali Shamkhani also called for deeper ties in energy, transportation, agriculture, trade and banking with Russia, according to NourNews, affiliated with the country’s top security body.

Mr Shamkhani spoke after a meeting with Russian security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, in Tehran, during which the pair also addressed Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

“Iran welcomes and supports any initiative that leads to a ceasefire and peace between Russia and Ukraine based on dialogue and is ready to play a role in ending the war,” Shamkhani said.

It comes after UK defence secretary Ben Wallace said that Russia was “losing slowly” in the war against Ukraine in an address to Ukrainian troops training with British forces in Lydd, Kent.

Elsewhere, eastern Europe is bracing for a potential wave of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country as Russia continues to barrage critical infrastructure, including heating plants, with freezing winter temperatures approaching.

Western Intelligence Services Played Key Role in Staging Mass Riots...

Samizdat – 09.11.2022

MOSCOW – Western intelligence services played a key role in organizing mass riots in Iran and spreading further disinformation about the situation in the country, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Wednesday.

“We note the key role of Western intelligence services in organizing mass riots in Iran and the subsequent dissemination of misinformation about the situation in the country through the Persian-speaking Western media controlled by them. We perceive this as blatant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state,” Patrushev said at a meeting with Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran Ali Shamkhani in Tehran, as cited by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.

On September 16, a series of protests against the current political regime of Iran broke out throughout the country. Riots were ignited by the reports of the death of a 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by morality police for wearing a hijab improperly.

Amini was detained by Iran’s morality police in Tehran on September 13 for wearing an “improper” hijab, an offense punishable by prison. The woman was sent to one of the FARAJA centers belonging to the police department and military intelligence for an explanatory conversation. In the center, Amini reportedly had a heart attack, after which she was immediately taken to hospital where the young woman passed away on September 16.

Tehran said that the weeks-long mass riots were planned from abroad and summoned the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, Norway, and the charges d’affaires of France in Iran in late September. The European diplomats were given a note of protest in connection with anti-Iranian media reports and calls to overthrow the Iranian government.

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