“The European Union’s indifference and acquiescence in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, brutalities and atrocities amounts to nothing less than complicity,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said.
Iran’s foreign ministry on Thursday accused the European Union of “complicity” in the U.S.-Israeli war against Tehran.
“The European Union’s indifference and acquiescence in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, brutalities and atrocities amounts to nothing less than complicity,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a post on X Thursday. “The world is watching.”
To support his claim, Baqaei shared a video of left-wing Belgian lawmaker Marc Botenga speaking in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, where Botenga said: “Most of you don’t condemn, you even support Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war on Iran … Your bombs never brought democracy and never will.” Botenga did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
EU leaders have taken differing positions on the Mideast conflict. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said “there should be no tears shed” over the fall of Iran’s regime, while European Council President António Costa warned the strikes undertaken by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu risked further instability across the Middle East.
Within Europe, Spain has been among the strongest critics of the military action, diverging from the positions of Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
Baqaei’s remarks came a few hours after Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned that attacks on Iranian islands would “shatter all restraint.”
“The blood of American soldiers is Trump’s personal responsibility,” Ghalibaf added.