Zelensky urges world to help free Iranians ‘from regime that has brought so much evil’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the world has to help Iranians build on protests to engineer change to free them from rule that brought evil to their own and other countries, including Ukraine.

Zelensky, speaking in his nightly video address, describes the nationwide protests gripping Iran as an “uprising.”

He says the unrest shows that Russia had to rethink its close links with Iran, which have included its wide use of Iranian-made “Shahed” drones in the nearly four-year-old war against Kyiv.

“Every normal person on Earth very much wants the people of Iran to finally be fortunate enough to free themselves from the regime that exists there and that has brought so much evil, including to Ukraine and to other countries,” Zelensky says.

“It is important that the world not miss this moment, when change is possible. Every leader, every country, international organizations must engage now and help people remove those who are responsible for Iran unfortunately being what it has been.”