In a post on his X account, Baqaei reacted to recent comments by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in a televised interview with Fox News, in which he referred to the involvement of Italy and Romania in facilitating US-Israeli military actions against Iran.
The Iranian spokesman condemned their participation in aggression against a sovereign state and said such actions must be explained to both domestic and international audiences.
“This is a clear and damning admission of NATO’s active complicity in an unlawful war of aggression against a sovereign UN Member State — a flagrant violation of peremptory norms of international law and the core principles of the UN Charter,” the Iranian spokesman said.
“The Organization and its individual member States that participated in such decision-making must be held accountable for all the consequences,” Baqaei added.
“Italy and Romania are explicitly named by NATO's SG to have participated in the aggression against Iran. They, along with every other European country that has assisted the American-Israeli aggression against Iran, must explain to their own people and to the world why they chose to collude in this blatant act of aggression and in the commission of mass atrocities against Iranian peoples in Minab, Lamerd, Tehran, Isfahan, Sanandaj, Hamadan, Tabriz, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, etc...,” he stated.