Brussels has shifted into crisis mode, with emergency meetings piling up Saturday and Sunday.
As European leaders raced to respond to the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the crisis exposed fault lines inside Europe — and across the Atlantic.
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Brussels moved quickly to strike a cautious tone. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on X that the situation was “perilous,” while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed it was “of the utmost importance” to prevent further escalation. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola also urged restraint.
At the national level, however, Europe’s message was less unified.
Why are we even slightly pro-Iran in EU? That doesn’t make any sense. The values of their regime are the polar opposite of ours and they have been directly helping Russia against Ukraine. They have clearly chose to be our enemies.
Its not about supporting Iran. Its about wholly rejecting the religious crusade of the most violent and bloodthirsty military powers out there.
“Religious” is debatable. I’m sure the proles shooting at and dropping bombs on the innocents have a little bit of “Deus Vult”, crusader religious fervor but the leaders don’t believe in anything (they’ll pretend for the silly masses), they just want the bag.
Iran chose to be our enemies by looks at history fighting Israeli influence in the middle east.
You are literally siding with the Zionists right now
Iran has also supplied Russia with Shahed suicide drones since the invasion started
That’s because Iran has been under constant EU sanctioning for half a century. What did Iran do since 1980 to warrant sanctioning?
I don’t see how that is relevant with supplying Russia with weapons agaist Ukraine. I just wanted to point out that their foreign policy is not really aligned with the EU. But to answer your question, I have personally met Iranians and their descendants who have fled because of the Islamic revolution, so there might be something worth critizising if you examine hard enough.
Iran is sanctioned as an extension of imperialist Western policy -> Iran doesn’t get to trade with the wealthiest markets on Earth -> Iran has to trade with whoever it can -> Iran sells Shahed drones to Russia, pretty simple.
Not what they said.
Ciriticisng the government of Iran is legitimate, but out of all times to do this, this is not the correct one. The focus should be on criticizing the military intervention that our own countries are responsible for.
“We don’t like your leadership” isn’t really causus belli for a military strike
And that’s why they were heavily sanctioned.