The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the West’s plan for NATO expansion is the main problem in the Ukraine crisis.
Ayatollah Khamenei said this while receiving the visiting Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev yesterday.
During their meeting, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “The main problem with Ukraine is that Westerners are trying to expand NATO and that they will not hesitate to expand their influence wherever they can.”
He emphasized that the developments should be carefully monitored and looked into because the Americans and Westerners are always trying to expand their influence in different regions, no matter whether it is eastern Asia or western Asia, and to target the independence and sovereignty of other countries.
The Supreme Leader, meantime, referred to the age-old deep historical and cultural ties between Iran and Kazakhstan, and called for the expansion of cooperation in different areas, especially in the format of regional cooperation.
He added that Farabi (Alpharabius), a Muslim philosopher and scholar with Kazakhstani origins whose works have been researched and studied in Iran for one thousand years, can be considered a basis for cultural cooperation and the founding of a mutual scholarly committee between Iran and Kazakhstan.
President Tokayev said that he had held very good negotiations with President Raisi, and the documents signed by the two sides could lay the ground for further expansion of relations between the two countries.
