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Iran about to hit Ukraine with ballistic missiles

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2025.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2025.
(photo credit: Alexander KAZAKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran reportedly considered attacking a Ukrainian seaport in the Black Sea in response to a Ukrainian strike on an Iranian ship, but in a "flurry of diplomacy," opted not to, Iranian and Western officials told The New York Times on Tuesday.

People with knowledge of the matter expected Iran to fire a ballistic missile with a small warhead at Ukraine as a show of strength, the NYT reported. This would have constituted a major escalation and risked opening a new warfront, given Iran's alliance with Russia. 

Ukraine's forces struck a Russian warship, and vessels used for transporting Iran-linked military cargo in the Caspian Sea, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea should be considered an assault on Iran itself and showed how important it was to eliminate what it said was the threat from Kyiv.

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