Iran introduced on Tuesday it might reply to EU and UK sanctions, vowing to focus on entities within the West that “violate human rights”.
Tehran stated it “strongly condemned” new sanctions imposed by way of Brussels and London over the weekend in line with the regime’s violent crackdown on protesters.
It warned retaliatory measures would quickly observe.
“The Islamic Republic will soon announce a list of new sanctions against the human rights violators of EU and England,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani stated in a commentary.
“The action of the European Union and the British regime is a sign of their mental inability to properly understand the realities of Iran,” Kanaani used to be quoted as announcing by way of the Iranian information company IMNA.
“They are against the authorities of the Islamic Republic,” he added.
The EU slapped sanctions on greater than 30 Iranian officers and organisations, together with devices of the tough Revolutionary Guards, blaming them for a “brutal” crackdown on unrest and different human rights abuses.
The US and UK additionally issued new sanctions in opposition to Iran, reflecting a deterioration within the West’s already dire family members with Tehran.
The sanctions are the most recent reaction to Iran’s fatal clampdown on unrest, sparked by way of the demise of younger Iranian Kurdish lady Mahsa Amini in morality police custody in September.
Four months after the beginning of anti-government unrest, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, says 516 protesters were killed, together with 70 youngsters.
The newest figures from the gang put the choice of other people arrested at greater than 19,200, amongst them 687 scholars.
