Conservative cleric and a newspaper editor openly critical of government’s stance on weapons it supplied to Moscow

An internal rift over the supply of deadly drones to Russia for use in Ukraine has opened up in Iran with a prominent conservative cleric and newspaper editor saying Russia is the clear aggressor in the war and the supply should stop.

A former Iranian ambassador to Moscow has also hinted the foreign ministry may have been kept in the dark both by the Kremlin and the Iranian military.

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