EU, UK slap new sanctions on Iran's IRGC leadership
Shortly after the British Foreign Ministry announced more sanctions against Iranian officials, the European Union added its own new sanctions on Iranian individuals and entities.
PARIS — The European Union and the British government both announced additional sanctions against Iranian officials Monday, citing breaches of human rights and crackdown on protesters.
EU foreign ministers designated eight individuals and one entity accused of committing serious human rights violations in Iran. A statement issued following the monthly meeting of the ministers in Brussels said the EU is sanctioning members of the Iranian judiciary responsible for handing down death sentences in unfair trials and over allegations of torturing detainees.
According to the statement, there are also new sanctions on “conservative clerics undermining the freedom of girls and women or propagating hate against women; a member of the Iranian Parliament and its spokesman for the cultural commission; the spokesman of the EU-listed Headquarters for Enjoining Right and Forbidding Evil; the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, a body which promoted several projects undermining the freedom of girls and women and discriminating minorities and the chief for cultural affairs and policy evolution at EU-listed Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which broadcasted forced confessions from foreign hostages during the recent protests.”
The new list includes conservative cleric Abdol Hossein Khosrou Panah, Friday prayer leader of Mashhad Ahmad Alam-Al Hoda, member of the Iranian Parliament Ahmad Rastineh, spokesperson of the EU-listed Headquarters for Enjoining Right and Forbidding Evil Hodjatoleslam Ali Khan Mohammadi, Chief Justice of Mazandaran province Mohammad Sadegh Akbari, presiding judge of branch 1 of the Revolutionary Courts of Isfahan Morteza Barati, head judge of branch 1 of the Revolutionary Courts of Karaj Musa Asif Al Hosseini and the head of cultural affairs and policy evolution at the EU-listed Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Vahid Jalili. The list also includes the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.
