{"id":5887,"date":"2026-04-19T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:14:01","slug":"iran-urges-eu-to-stop-using-international-law-as-political-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/iran-urges-eu-to-stop-using-international-law-as-political-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran urges EU to stop using international law as political tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary introtext\">Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei urged the EU to stop using international law as a political tool, describing the bloc\u2019s conduct as \u201cpeak hypocrisy,\u201d as tensions continue amid the US naval blockade of Iran and the Islamic Republic\u2019s control over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran &#8211; IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>\u201cOh, that &#8216;international law&#8217;?! The one that the EU dusts off to lecture others while quietly green-lighting a U.S.-Israeli war of aggression\u2014and looking the other way on atrocities against Iranians?! Spare the sermons; Europe\u2019s chronic failure to practice what it preaches has turned its &#8216;international law&#8217; talk into peak hypocrisy,\u201d Baghaei said Sunday in his X post, responding to an earlier post from EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas.<\/p>\n<p>In her post, the top EU official said the Strait of Hormuz must remain open under international law and called on Iran to \u201cabandon any plan to levy transit fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo 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,\u201d the spokesman said, blaming the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran for the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u2018unconditional transit passage\u2019 in Hormuz? That fiction sailed the moment U.S.\/Israeli aggression brought U.S. Military assets into the strait\u2019s backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei urged the EU to stop using international law as a political tool, describing the bloc\u2019s conduct as \u201cpeak hypocrisy,\u201d as tensions continue amid the US naval blockade of Iran and the Islamic Republic\u2019s control over the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran &#8211; IranView24 \u201cOh, that &#8216;international law&#8217;?! The one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-foreign-policy","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}