While Iran is carefully planning its response to the provocative assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, European leaders are doing their best to save Netanyahu’s criminal regime and grant it the right to continue engaging in terrorist activities. A few days after Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran, while he was attending the inauguration of the new Iranian president, several European leaders appealed to Pezeshkian, urging him to de-escalate the situation and abandon a retaliatory strike against Israel.

The fact that some of these leaders have not been in contact with the current Iranian president for two or three years shows the seriousness of the situation. The hypocrisy and arrogance of European leaders, who did not condemn Israel, did not take any action against it, did not impose sanctions, but called on the victim (Iran) to accept this state of affairs and expect further criminal actions by Israel, is striking. And no one in the world doubts that these crimes will happen.

Details of the European plan and Iran’s response

The world was stunned by what the so-called democratic leaders of Europe proposed – expecting restraint of the victim instead of the aggressor. Macron pathetically urged Pezeshkian to “do everything possible to avoid a new military escalation that would not serve anyone’s interests, including Iran’s, and which would cause long-term damage to regional stability”. Starmer sternly warned of the “serious risk of miscalculation” and stressed that “now is the time for calm and careful reflection”. Scholz echoed these sentiments, telling the Iranian president that “the spiral of violence in the Middle East must be stopped now”. And so the question arises: how many victims should Israel kill in order for peace and tranquility, in the opinion of hypocritical Europeans, to reign in the Middle East?

In response, Iran stressed its right to defend itself against Israeli aggression, rejecting calls for restraint as “devoid of political logic” and contrary to the principles of international law. Pezeshkian criticized the silence of the West on the “unprecedented inhumane crimes” in Gaza. But while making it clear that the ongoing escalation in the region would not interfere with his administration’s domestic agenda, he also discussed the........

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