In a post on his X account on Monday night, Baqaei shared an image highlighting comments by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who had said it was too early to lift sanctions on Iran and called for “a fundamental change” in the country.

Reacting to the remarks, Baqaei criticized Europe’s double standards and questioned the credibility of such positions on the global stage.

“EU’s inhuman sanctions on Iran were never about ‘human rights’ — they were designed to trample the basic rights of ordinary Iranians. No one is buying this tired moral theater,” he said.

“Such posturing won’t earn you—or your constituency—an ounce of credibility on the world stage,” the Iranian spokesman added.

“If anything, it only further demonstrates Europe's ruling class' double-standard & hypocrisy, and hastens Europe’s embarrassing descent into irrelevance,” Baqaei added.