In response to the European Commission president’s recent comments, Spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baqaei delivered a scathing rebuke.
Ursula von der Leyen said in an X post on March 9, “The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, and the right to decide their own future. Even if we know this will be fraught with danger and instability during and after the war. We are now seeing a regional conflict with unintended consequences. British military bases have been targeted in Cyprus. I want to reaffirm our full solidarity with Cyprus.”
Baqaei responded to her comments, saying in a post on his X account on Tuesday, “Please spare the hypocrisy. You’ve made a career out of standing on the wrong side of history—green-lighting occupation, genocide, and atrocities, and now laundering US/Israeli crime of aggression and war crimes against Iranians.”
“Where was your voice when more than 165 innocent IRANIAN little angels were massacred in the city of Minab? Why don't you say anything when hospitals, historical sites, oil facilities, diplomatic police headquarter, firefighting stations and residential neighborhoods are wickedly targeted?” the Iranian spokesman asked the European official.
“Silence in the face of lawlessness and atrocity is nothing less than complicity. Scroll through the replies under your own post and see what people really think about your ‘whitewashing of criminals’,” Baqaei reminded von der Leyen.
The US and the Zionist regime launched a large-scale military campaign against Iran following the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, along with several senior military commanders and civilians on February 28.
The attacks have involved extensive aerial strikes on both military and civilian locations across Iran, causing significant casualties and widespread damage to infrastructure.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces have carried out retaliatory operations, targeting American and Israeli positions in the occupied territories and at regional bases with waves of missiles and drones.