Iran calls on EU head to stop hypocrisy, not stand on wrong side of history

Iran has called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to stop “hypocrisy”, urging her to no longer stand on the “wrong side of history”, days after a US military aggression claimed the lives of more than 160 schoolchildren in southern Iran. 

In a post on his X account on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei also called on the EU chief to stop occupation, genocide, and atrocities.

“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 U.S./Israeli crime of aggression and war crimes against Iranians,” he said.

His comments came ten days after a joint US-Israeli bombing pounded the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, a southern town in Iran, killing 165, the majority of them children.

Nearly 100 other schoolchildren from the same school were injured in the barbaric aggression.

Despite the horrific nature of the bombing and also strikes on other civilian structures and facilities, the European body has so far remained silent, failing to condemn the Minab bombing and striking of civilian targets inside Iran.

“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?” Baghaei added.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson also reminded von der Leyen, “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’,” Baghaei further advised the EU chief.

The United States and Israel launched an unprovoked war on Iran on February 28 by assassinating top Iranian officials and commanders in airstrikes and targeting the country's military and civilian infrastructure.

Iran has responded massively by attacking the Israeli regime and US military assets in regional countries, which has deeply affected the production and transport of oil and natural gas in the region.

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.ir