🔸The New York Times, citing several Iranian and Western officials whose names have not been disclosed, reported that the Iranian government had intended to attack a port in Ukraine in response to Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship, but refrained from carrying out the action following diplomatic efforts.

🔸The newspaper, citing these officials, wrote that Iran was expected to launch a ballistic missile with a small warhead at Ukraine to cause relatively limited damage and to provide a symbolic response to Ukraine’s attack. These officials said that the target of the attack was likely one of Ukraine’s ports in the Black Sea.

🔸According to the report published early on Wednesday, 7 Mordad, officials of the Islamic Republic had hoped the clash would end with their retaliatory attack, but Western officials warned that it is difficult to predict how Ukraine would respond.

🔸As written by The New York Times, on Tuesday, after Ukrainian diplomats tried to reduce tensions, Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s foreign minister, spoke by phone with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andriy Sybiha.