{"id":3943,"date":"2026-06-26T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/3943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:03:14","slug":"iran-nato-members-complicit-in-us-israeli-aggression-must-be-held-to-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/3943\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: NATO Members Complicit in US-\u201cIsraeli\u201d Aggression must Be Held to Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1288365\/iran-nato-members-complicit-in-us-israeli-aggression-must-be-held-to-account\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/n01288365-b.jpg\" alt=\"Iran: NATO Members Complicit in US-\u201cIsraeli\u201d Aggression must Be Held to Account\" title=\"Iran: NATO Members Complicit in US-\u201cIsraeli\u201d Aggression must Be Held to Account\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Iran accused the NATO member states of being complicit in the illegal US-\u201cIsraeli\u201d aggression against Iran, namely Italy and Romania, must be held accountable for their war crimes against the nation.Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks in an X post on Thursday after NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte cited Italy and Romania as examples of European countries that supported the recent military assault against Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly and Romania are explicitly named by NATO&#8217;s SG to have participated in the aggression against Iran,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey, along with every other European country that has assisted the American-\u201cIsraeli\u201d aggression against Iran, must explain to their own people and to the world why they chose to collude in this blatant act of aggression and in the commission of mass atrocities against Iranian peoples in Minab, Lamerd, Tehran, Isfahan, Sanandaj, Hamadan, Tabriz, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Fox News television, Rutte said Rome quietly allowed \u201c500 US planes\u201d to take off from bases in Italy while Romania restricted commercial flights from Bucharest to facilitate US attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Baghaei described Rutte\u2019s comments as a \u201cclear and damning admission of NATO\u2019s active complicity in an unlawful war of aggression against a sovereign UN Member State\u201d in flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Organization [NATO] and its individual member States that participated in such decision &#8211; making must be held accountable for all the consequences,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Rutte\u2019s remarks have sparked fresh controversy as Rome claims it denied permission for US warplanes bound for Iran.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Iran accused the NATO member states of being complicit in the illegal US-\u201cIsraeli\u201d aggression against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3083,3090,3084,3078,3077,1151,3081,3087,3079,3091,1142,3082,3088,348,156,588,3076,182,3085,3065,3080,3089,2160,7,352,12,3086,349,3074,1143,1154,292,130],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-account","tag-accountable","tag-accused","tag-against","tag-aggression","tag-and","tag-be","tag-being","tag-complicit","tag-crimes","tag-for","tag-held","tag-illegal","tag-in","tag-iran","tag-islam","tag-israeli","tag-italy","tag-member","tag-members","tag-must","tag-namely","tag-nation","tag-nato","tag-of","tag-romania","tag-states","tag-the","tag-their","tag-times","tag-to","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}