According to reports from Russian TV today, Iran's Fars News Agency and other media outlets on the 3rd, Mohsin Rezai, a military adviser to Iran's supreme leader and former commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Iran had originally prepared to carry out retaliatory attacks against three targets in Ukraine, but after Ukraine “apologized,” Iran cancelled this plan. The report mentioned that Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on July 25 that a Ukrainian drone attacked an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, causing the death of a sailor. According to the Ukrainian side, the ship was transporting military equipment to Russia. Iran, on the other hand, pointed out that the ship was carrying civilian cargo and denounced the attack as an “act of aggression.” The Russian side confirmed that the ship attacked was the civilian cargo ship “Anna”. On August 3, local time, Rezai said on an Iranian television program that Iran “originally planned to attack three targets in Ukraine, but it was canceled after Ukraine apologized.” Rezai said that after the incident, the Ukrainian side took the initiative to contact and claim “that was a mistake; we made a mistake,” and Iran has decided to investigate this claim, and “even if it is a false attack, it will definitely bear the consequences.” After receiving the explanation, Iran did not continue with the retaliation plan.

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