“I think people in Iran are looking for help to change the current regime, which openly wants to attack other countries and does a lot of harm. This regime has existed for many years. People have no rights. People are disappearing. People are being killed and executed by the thousands. I would support an operation against the regime, not against the people,” he said.
Zelensky recalled that the United States and the Iranian regime are now negotiating, and this, in his opinion, is better than military action.
“I can say this because we are at war. But I’m not sure that the current regime sincerely shares this idea. I’m not sure. But we’ll see,” he added.
Context
On January 28, US President Donald Trump demanded that Iran come to the negotiating table to achieve “a fair and just agreement – without nuclear weapons.” On February 4, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi confirmed the holding of negotiations with the US delegation (on Tehran’s nuclear program) on February 6 in Oman. They took place in the capital Muscat.
Tehran wanted to discuss with Washington only nuclear issues, and not other topics, in particular the missile program, which is a priority for the United States and the countries of the Middle East, Axios noted.
In an interview published on February 4, the head of the White House said that Iranian authorities were considering starting construction of a new nuclear facility in another part of the country, but the United States warned them that they would do “very bad things” to them.
On February 12, Trump said that negotiations between the United States and Iran on the nuclear program could last up to a month, and that if an agreement is not reached, there would be “very traumatic” consequences for Iran.
