The Foreign Ministry this evening (Monday) sharply attacked the EU decision to send a senior representative on its behalf to the inauguration of the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi. In a statement issued by ministry spokesman Lior Hayat, Israel called on the union to cancel attendance at the ceremony in Tehran, calling the participation "shameful."

"The decision of the European Union to send a senior representative to the inauguration ceremony of the 'Butcher from Tehran' is puzzling and indicates a misjudgment," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The participation of the union representative in the ceremony, just days after Iran killed two civilians, one of them from a member state of the union, in an act of state terrorism against civilian vessels, and especially in light of the fact that the new Iranian president bleeds thousands of Iranian citizens, is legitimizing and legitimizing the attack. "To the aggressive policy of the ayatollahs' government. 

Flattery and subservience to violent and totalitarian regimes invite only more violence and aggression."