The European Union and the United Kingdom announced on Monday that they would impose additional sanctions against Iran. 29 people and three organizations are affected as a result. It is in response to the regime’s violent crackdown on protests in Tehran, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said in a statement. declaration. “We stand with the Iranian people and support their right to peacefully protest and express their demands and positions,” he said.
The sanctioned persons will be banned from traveling to the EU and their money will be frozen. EU residents are also not allowed to transfer money to them. These include Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi and four officers who arrested Mahsa Amini, after which she later died. Some members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have also been hit by the sanctions and Mohammad Naser Majid, the head of Iran’s cyber police, for his role in arbitrarily arresting people who criticized the Iranian regime online.
In total, the EU has now imposed sanctions against 126 people from Iran and 11 Iranian organisations. The UK on Monday imposed sanctions against 24 Iranians, which are coordinated with EU sanctions. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said sanctions have been imposed against Iranian state officials responsible for “horrific human rights violations,” according to Reuters news agency.
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