Ukraine-Russian Crisis
War: EU Slaps New Sanctions On Iranian Experts Helping Russia
EU has slapped new sanctions on Iranian experts helping Russia with explosive drones.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the European Union foreign ministers have imposed new sanctions on Iranian clerics, senior officials and top state media employees over the brutal crackdown on protesters, and also on experts they believe are linked to supplying Russia with explosive drones to use in its war against Ukraine.
The ministers imposed bans on travelling to Europe and froze the assets of 20 individuals.
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They also froze the assets of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, saying the media outlet was a “mouthpiece” for “the violent response to the recent demonstrations in Iran.”
Iranian women — and some men — have protested the government’s severe restrictions on their daily life since late September after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
Iran executed a second prisoner convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him Monday from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others.
In a statement, the EU ministers called on Iran “to immediately end the strongly condemnable practice of imposing and carrying out death sentences against protesters as well as to annul without delay the recent death penalty sentences that were already pronounced.”
The ministers also hit out at Iran for supplying drones to Russia, saying the “weapons provided by Iran are being used indiscriminately by Russia against Ukrainian civilian population and infrastructure causing horrendous destruction and human suffering.”
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Four people and four “entities” – often agencies, media outlets, companies or organisations – were hit with sanctions “for undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.”
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