Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has launched a blistering attack on NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, accusing European nations of active complicity in the US-Israeli military campaign against the Islamic Republic and demanding they face accountability for their role in the war.
In a fiery statement posted on X early Thursday, spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei seized on Rutte’s recent remarks, which reportedly boasted of European involvement in the ongoing hostilities. Rejecting any pretense of European neutrality, Baqaei asserted that Rutte’s admissions had laid bare the continent’s direct participation in an illegal war of aggression.
“Mark Rutte’s repeated admissions of Europe’s willful complicity in the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran only confirms, once again, that they were not impartial in this brutal unlawful aggression,” Baqaei declared. He specifically called out European nations that had “provided their territories, military bases, and infrastructure to enable the aggression,” insisting they “cannot evade responsibility for their contribution to an unprovoked aggression and its grave consequences.”
Spokesman Dismisses Rutte’s Rhetoric as ‘Servile’
The Iranian diplomat did not spare the NATO chief from personal criticism, dismissing Rutte’s self-congratulatory tone as a desperate bid for Washington’s approval rather than a display of strategic leadership.
“Yet @SecGenNATO’s relentless self-congratulation for serving an illegal war of choice does not reflect strength it exposes the servile mindset of a fawning courtier who fancies that flattery can erase a king’s contempt,” Baqaei wrote in a sharply worded passage. He added that “in Washington’s eyes, an ineffective Organization cannot be rendered effective through sycophancy nor can such manipulative flattery ever restore the flatterer’s own self-respect and personal integrity.”
Source: Iranian media (translated and edited by Al-Manar)