According to her, this is the development that was warned about and from which everyone was warned.
“Now is the next round of tension, which is provoked, obviously, by the corresponding policies pursued by Western countries, primarily, of course, the United States, implementing a very strange, short-sighted policy,” Zakharova said on the air of Ekho Moskvy radio station.
She noted that this round of tension in the region was due to the accumulated critical mass of contradictions.
Earlier, the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, discussed the situation in the Persian Gulf.
On January 8, Iran attacked US military bases in Iraq. The military operation “Martyr Suleimani” was a response to the assassination of the United States by the General IRGC.