Iran takes exception to EU's human rights concerns

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Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has said that European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas speaks of “human rights concerns” regarding Iran.

“How can a professed commitment to human rights be so easily reconciled with providing logistical and technical support for lethal aggressions against the Iranian people — aggressions that deliberately target civilians and critical national infrastructure? All while refusing to condemn even the most blatant war crimes, and offering not a single word of sympathy for Iranian children slaughtered by American-Israeli bombs and missiles enabled by the EU’s own ‘logistical and technical support’,” he said.

“This is not merely a loss of credibility. It is the banality of evil — and the purest form of hypocrisy,” he added.