Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “spare the hypocrisy.”

“Please spare the hypocrisy. You’ve made a career out of standing on the wrong side of history—green-lighting occupation, genocide, and atrocities, and now laundering U.S./Israeli crime of aggression and war crimes against Iranians.

Where was your voice when more than 165 innocent IRANIAN little angels were massacred in the city of Minab? Why don't you say anything when hospitals, historical sites, oil facilities, diplomatic police headquarter, firefighting stations and residential neighborhoods are wickedly targeted?

Silence in the face of lawlessness and atrocity is nothing less than complicity.

Scroll through the replies under your own post and see what people really think about your ‘whitewashing of criminals,’” the Iranian MFA spokesperson wrote on X.

Also, Baqaei reposted von der Leyen’s speech and post, which stated that the “people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, and the right to decide their own future.”

“Even if we know this will be fraught with danger and instability during and after the war. We are now seeing a regional conflict with unintended consequences. British military bases have been targeted in Cyprus. I want to reaffirm our full solidarity with Cyprus,” the European Commission chief’s post added.