Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei urged the EU to stop using international law as a political tool, describing the bloc’s conduct as “peak hypocrisy,” as tensions continue amid the US naval blockade of Iran and the Islamic Republic’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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“Oh, that ‘international law’?! The one that the EU dusts off to lecture others while quietly green-lighting a U.S.-Israeli war of aggression—and looking the other way on atrocities against Iranians?! Spare the sermons; Europe’s chronic failure to practice what it preaches has turned its ‘international law’ talk into peak hypocrisy,” Baghaei said Sunday in his X post, responding to an earlier post from EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas.
In her post, the top EU official said the Strait of Hormuz must remain open under international law and called on Iran to “abandon any plan to levy transit fees.”
“No rule of international law forbids Iran, the coastal State, from taking necessary measures to stop the Strait of Hormuz being used for waging military aggression against Iran,” the spokesman said, blaming the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran for the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz.
“And ‘unconditional transit passage’ in Hormuz? That fiction sailed the moment U.S./Israeli aggression brought U.S. Military assets into the strait’s backyard.”
