Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has again reproached the West over NATO’s eastward expansion. Had Russia not taken the initiative in the war against Ukraine, the conflict would have been different, Khamenei said during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran on Tuesday, state broadcaster IRIB reported. He was alluding to an argument put forward by Russia, according to which Moscow felt constrained by the admission of Eastern European states to the defence alliance and especially by Ukraine’s potential membership of NATO. Khamenei, who according to the constitution ha…