{"id":101582,"date":"2023-01-24T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=101582"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:34:12","slug":"30-00-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=101582","title":{"rendered":"US, UK, EU Issue Coordinated Sanctions Against Iranian Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>US, UK, EU Issue Coordinated Sanctions Against Iranian Officials<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Andrew Bernard<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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FILE PHOTO: A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iranian morality police is seen in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2022. Majid Asgaripour\/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS\/<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The US, UK and EU issued coordinated sanctions Monday against senior Iranian officials, including Iran\u2019s deputy intelligence minister and four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders.<\/span><\/p>\n

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that there would be \u201cno hiding place\u201d for those guilty of violating human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose sanctioned today, from the judicial figures using the death penalty for political ends to the thugs beating protestors on the streets, are at the heart of the regime\u2019s brutal repression of the Iranian people,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pressure has mounted on the EU and UK to step up sanctions in recent weeks following a series of Iranian political executions<\/a>. On Wednesday the European Parliament voted to call for the IRGC to be designated<\/a> in its entirety, a decision that can only be made by the unanimous vote of the EU\u2019s Council of Ministers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at the Council of Ministers meeting that imposed the new sanctions Monday, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief Josep Borell said that the IRGC cannot be designated<\/a> without a court ruling by an EU member state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is something that cannot be decided without a court\u2026 decision first. You cannot say I consider you a terrorist because I don\u2019t like you,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s new EU sanctions designate several regional units and unit commanders of the IRGC for their role in the crackdown on months-long protests following the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in regime custody after being arrested by Iran\u2019s Morality Police for allegedly failing to wear her hijab in the legally-required manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

The EU had previously only listed the IRGC\u2019s Aerospace Force<\/a> as a terrorist entity for its role in supplying drones to Russia against Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IRGC commanders designated Monday include figures accused of firing on protesters with live ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Javanrud, a town in Kermanshah province, IRGC troops used live ammunition, including from semi-heavy machine guns, to quell protests, killing and wounding dozens,\u201d US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.  \u201cThe IRGC has shelled vehicles attempting to deliver blood bags to those wounded in local hospitals, preventing their delivery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As of 9 January, Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based NGO, records at least 481 protesters killed by Iran since September and 109 protesters facing death penalty charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

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US, UK, EU Issue Coordinated Sanctions Against Iranian Officials Andrew Bernard FILE PHOTO: A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iranian morality police is seen in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2022. Majid Asgaripour\/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS\/ The US, UK and EU issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101607,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101582\/revisions\/101607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}