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EU Observer (1 March 2026)

Andrew Rettman

Nobody in the EU immediately backed the US attack on Iran, which killed its supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei, except fringe populist fans of US president Donald Trump.

Not even Trump’s closest EU friends – Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán or Slovak prime minister Robert Fico – voiced support on Saturday (28 February), amid fears of spiralling escalation in the Middle East.

Orbán said only that the new Iran war justified his veto on EU funding to Ukraine, as the oil-market shock it caused meant he needed Russian oil via a disputed pipeline.

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