María E.

Palabras íntegras de Trump: «Algunos europeos, como España, han sido terribles. De hecho, le dije a Scott que cortara todos los tratos con España. Todo empezó cuando pedí que cada país europeo llegara al 5%, que es lo que deberían estar haciendo. Alemania fue entusiasta, todos lo fueron. España no lo hizo. Y ahora España dice que no podemos usar sus bases. Eso se acabó. Podemos usar sus bases si queremos. Podemos volar y utilizarlas. Nadie nos va a decir que no podemos hacerlo. Pero no tenemos que hacerlo. Fueron poco amistosos. Les dije que no queremos nada en España. No hay absolutamente nada que necesitemos. Tienen gran gente, pero no tienen gran liderazgo. Como saben, fueron el único país de la OTAN que no quiso comprometerse al 5%. No creo que quisieran comprometerse a nada. Querían quedarse en el 2% y ni siquiera pagan el 2%. Así que vamos a cortar todo el comercio con España. No queremos ninguno».

Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday. For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.

Irán debe cesar de inmediato la represión de las protestas pacíficas, las detenciones arbitrarias y las restricciones a la libertad de expresión. Hemos convocado al embajador iraní en España para expresar nuestro rechazo a la violencia contra manifestantes y exigir respeto a los derechos fundamentales de todos los iraníes.

There is a revealing silence echoing across the West. Not the silence of ignorance, but the silence of choice. In Iran, people are on the streets demanding freedom. The regime has responded by cutting the internet, clearing the stage, and preparing the ground for bloodshed. This is how the Islamic Republic kills without witnesses. We have seen it before. We know exactly what comes next. And yet the Western Left, so vocal on every other injustice, has very little to say. The Iranian state has not merely censored dissent; it has switched off the lights. An internet blackout is not crowd control. It is premeditation. In 2019, the same tactic preceded the killing of around 1,500 people. Today, with protests spreading across more than a hundred cities, the pattern is repeating under the rule of Ali Khamenei. Tear gas, live rounds, mass arrests. Children dead. Morgues filling. Silence abroad. What makes the silence damning is that nothing here is unclear. The protesters are not chanting borrowed slogans or calling for "dialogue" with their jailers. They chant against the dictator. They tear down regime symbols. They want the end of a theocracy that beats women, jails opponents, and exports terror. They want freedom, plainly and without disguise. That should trigger outrage. It does not. Instead, we hear the familiar hedging language. Calls for "restraint". Appeals for "engagement". Statements so bloodless they could be drafted by the regime itself. The same voices that erupt over statues in Bristol and police tactics in Paris are suddenly cautious when a clerical dictatorship prepares to shoot its own people in the dark. The reason is not confusion. It is alignment. The modern Left rations outrage according to ideology. When protests are directed against the West or its allies, they are hailed as the voice of the people. When protests are directed against regimes that define themselves in opposition to the West, the moral energy drains away. Iran is anti-American, anti-Israel, and loudly hostile to Western power. That places it on the protected side of the ledger. This is the moral inversion at work. Brutality is not condemned on its own terms. It is weighed against who benefits. If tyranny weakens the West, it is indulged. If resistance strengthens the values the West claims to believe in, it is ignored. Watch the contrast. Every move by Donald Trump is interrogated to the bone. Every Israeli action is parsed, moralised, and condemned. Yet as Iran prepares a massacre behind a digital curtain, the same critics fall quiet. The standard does not wobble; it disappears. This is why the internet blackout matters. It is not a technical detail. It is the signal that the regime is about to act without witnesses. And the absence of Western pressure, media saturation, and moral insistence tells Tehran that it can proceed with minimal cost. The Left likes to present itself as the conscience of the age. Iran exposes the fraud. This is not a politics of people, but of narratives. Suffering matters only when it can be used against the West. When it cannot, it is filed away under "complexity" and forgotten. The protesters in Iran are not asking for Western retreat. They are asking for Western civilisation to mean something again: liberty, dignity, law, the right to live without fear of the state. That makes them inconvenient. Their courage exposes the hollowness of a human-rights culture that speaks loudly only when it's safe to do so. History will record who spoke and who stayed quiet while the lights went out. Tyranny thrives on that quiet. And every time the Left chooses silence over solidarity with those fighting for freedom, it teaches dictators the same lesson: kill quickly, kill unseen, and the noise will fade. That is the cost of moral inversion. And Iran is paying it in blood. "They chant against the dictator. They tear down regime symbols. They want the end of a theocracy that beats women, jails opponents, and exports terror."