Tehran - Saba:
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh asserted that during recent developments and the aggression of the Zionist regime and the United States against Iran, European countries have revealed their hypocritical face.
Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday that Khatibzadeh's statement came during a session held by the Center for Political and International Studies affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, titled "The Zionist Regime's Aggression against Iran: Future Prospects."
During the session, Khatibzadeh said that those who claim Iran is weak are seeking to promote this false notion to Donald Trump for their own purposes. He added, "Some have taken Tehran's proportionate and measured responses as the basis for their analyses and indicators of its weakness. However, they must know that if an existential threat is posed to Iran and its vital interests, Iran's response will inevitably be unexpected in nature and form, and beyond the usual calculations."
He added, "Donald Trump declared that he seeks Iran's unconditional surrender, but this illusion was closed the moment they proposed a ceasefire and realized that Iran is a country that does not compromise. Iran is a civilized nation that has proven throughout the ages that it is adept at surviving and emerging stronger after every aggression. This resilience and growth is the secret of this nation's greatness."
The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister continued, responding to Europe's positions on the American and Zionist aggression against Iran, saying, "There is no place for major European countries today to play a strategic role in international developments, culturally and morally. This war has exposed Europe's duplicitous and hypocritical nature before everyone's eyes."
He added, "These European countries, which were themselves the architects of international organizations and claimed to uphold liberal values, are today unable to preserve even the slightest semblance of these values in the structures they themselves built."
Khatibzadeh explained that as a result of the contradictory and immoral positions of some major European countries, the strongholds of human rights, international laws, and standards, which they had sought refuge in and claimed global leadership, have collapsed today. He said, "No one believes that European countries are truly concerned about the values that have served as their foundation for years and that have exploited others."