The projection of the French embassy on the criticism of the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry

Esmail Beqaei criticized Europe's silence in the face of US threats against the International Criminal Court and provoked the reaction of the French Embassy in Tehran. The French embassy interpreted his statements as wrong.

Ambassador Arjan-Political Group: Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman's clear warning to Europe about keeping silent in the face of US threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC) was met with a projective reaction from the French Embassy in Tehran.

Ismail Baqaei, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, wrote on his personal page on the social network X (former Twitter) on Monday evening, referring to the recent threats of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio against the International Criminal Court: Rubio has threatened that if America's allies do not curb the International Criminal Court, he will destroy this institution "brick by brick". Remember the 1930s: international orders do not collapse through aggression alone, but when the use of force becomes normal and the world remains silent.

Baqaei further addressed the countries of the Green Continent and emphasized their passive approach: "Europe! Does standing by a coalition mean defending international law and post-World War II normative and institutional frameworks, or standing by America while it destroys them? If law and justice are sacrificed to please an aggressor ally, any talk of human rights and a law-based international order will be nothing more than empty rhetoric.

Following the criticism of the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, the French Embassy in Tehran, in a series of tweets, called Ismail Baghai's statements "wrong" and defended Europe's performance in response to US sanctions against the court.

The French Embassy stated that France strongly condemned the US institutional sanctions against the International Criminal Court and asked the United States to cancel these sanctions. The European Union has also made a clear statement about this.

The embassy further added that France, in conjunction with its European partners and other member states of the Rome Statute, will take practical measures, including, if necessary, by resorting to the blocking provisions of the European Union, so that this court is able to continue its mission in an independent and impartial manner.

This embassy claimed: In order to implement our support for the International Criminal Court, we ask Iran, which, along with the United States and Israel, did not vote in favor of the Rome Statute dated July 17, 1998 and has not yet joined it, to join the 125 member countries of the Rome Statute, so that we can collectively help the execution of justice for the victims of the most serious crimes.

The European Union and a number of European countries, in response to the US decision to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court, considered this action to be contrary to the independence of international justice and emphasized on supporting the continuation of this institution.

Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, criticized the Donald Trump administration's sanctions against the International Criminal Court and warned that these measures could make the day-to-day activities of this institution more difficult and, according to him, provide immunity for American and Israeli officials from international prosecutions.

In response to Emmanuel Macron's statements about France's nuclear deterrence, Ismail Baqa'i criticized what he called the monopoly of power and double standards in dealing with Iran's nuclear program.