Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Aiden Connine, Ireland’s ambassador in Tehran, as the representative of the rotating presidency of the European Union in protest against the statement issued by the EU leaders’ summit.

The state news agency IRNA reported that Alireza Yousefi, assistant to the foreign minister and director-general for Western Europe at the ministry, rejected the points raised against the Islamic Republic in the statement from the EU leaders’ summit and protested the positions of the Union regarding the situation in the region, the Strait of Hormuz, and human rights.

Yousefi said that insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz is the result of attacks by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic, carried out with the support of some European countries. He also accused the European Union of double standards on human rights.

On 24 Mehr, in its final statement following the EU leaders’ summit, the European Council condemned the suppression of citizens and mass executions in Iran, and called for respect for human rights and for the people of Iran’s right to determine their own future.