Poland and Hungary both claim to be allies of the Jewish state, yet their envoys celebrated the anniversary of the “Iranian Revolution,” a regime that seeks Israel’s destruction.
Iran is celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ushered in an ear of repressive authoritarian rule by the country’s brutal fundamentalist mullahs.
Among the regime’s top priorities is wiping the world’s only Jewish state off the map, a campaign Iran pursues mercilessly via its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other U.S.-designated terror groups across the region, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Despite Iran’s obsession with destroying Israel, two of the Jewish state’s so-called allies, Poland and Hungary, sent ambassadors to a state ceremony commemorating the 44th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, defying the European Union’s (EU) “tacit agreement” to not publicly support the regime.
As of January 2023, a U.S.-based human rights group said over 500 protesters had been killed, including 70 children.
In light of this brutal onslaught by the Iranian regime, Poland and Hungary sending ambassadors to celebrate the mullahs’ rule shocked some.
Executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, said it was a “shame” that Hungary and Poland supported the ceremony.
“Poland and Hungary broke ranks with other EU countries in Tehran and sent ambassadors to a formal reception with President Ebrahim Raisi to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution,” tweeted Neuer.
According to a statement on the website of the Israeli embassy in Poland, the two countries “enjoy very solid and profound relations, which include close cooperation in the political, military, economic, cultural and educational spheres.”
With that being said, the relationship has frayed during the past several years, as Poland attempts to criminalize statements that implicate it in the crimes of the Holocaust.
“On the eve of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 3.3 million Jews lived [in Poland],” explains the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel. “At the end of the war, approximately 380,000 Polish Jews remained alive, the rest having been murdered, mostly in the ghettos and the six death camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau.”