Iran accuses EU of hypocrisy over new sanctions, support for Israel

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has accused the European Union of hypocrisy after EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced new sanctions against Iranian officials over alleged human rights violations.

Baqaei questioned how the EU could claim to be concerned about human rights in Iran while, in his view, providing logistical and technical support for what he described as lethal attacks against the Iranian people and critical infrastructure, Caliber.Az reports.

.@Kajakallas speaks of the European Union’s “human rights concerns” regarding Iran. How can a professed commitment to human rights be so easily reconciled with providing logistical and technical support for lethal aggressions against the Iranian people — aggressions that…

— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) July 25, 2026

He also accused the EU of refusing to condemn alleged war crimes and failing to express sympathy for Iranian children killed in US-Israeli strikes that he said were enabled by the bloc’s support.

Baqaei described the EU’s position as a loss of credibility and “the banality of evil,” calling it the “purest form of hypocrisy,” in a post on X.

His remarks came in response to Kallas’s announcement that the EU had imposed new restrictive measures on Iranian judges accused of serious human rights violations and on a leading figure linked to a cyber group allegedly involved in the repression of information.

By Sabina Mammadli