Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei has assailed the European Union for “peak hypocrisy”, castigating the bloc for its “failure to practice what it preaches”.

The spokesperson has shared an X post by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, which states that under international law, waterways like the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and free of charge.

“Oh, that ‘international law’?! The one that the EU dusts off to lecture others while quietly green-lighting a US-Israeli war of aggression — and looking the other way on atrocities against Iranians?!” he writes on X.

“Spare the sermons; Europe’s chronic failure to practice what it preaches has turned its ‘international law’ talk into peak hypocrisy.”

Baghaei states that no rule in international law prohibits Iran from taking measures to stop the Strait of Hormuz from being used for military purposes by a hostile nation.

“And ‘unconditional transit passage’ in Hormuz? That fiction sailed the moment US-Israeli aggression brought US military assets into the strait’s backyard,” he adds.