After the announcement by the French Foreign Minister, the EU foreign policy official confirmed Josep Borrell On Tuesday, members were considering imposing sanctions on Iran over the killing of Mahsa Amini and the suppression of demonstrations across the country.
Borrell told the European Parliament that countries would continue to consider all available options, including restrictive measures in response to Amini’s killing and the way in which Iranian security forces handled the protests.
“Restrictive Measures”
He stressed that the phrase “restrictive measures” necessarily meant imposing sanctions.
This came hours following French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced on Tuesday that her country is working within the European Union to adopt sanctions that provide for freezing the assets and banning travel for those responsible for what is happening there.
She added before the deputies that these measures aim to respond to the repression by targeting those responsible.
She also emphasized that the new measures might have an impact on the regime’s decision-makers in Iran.
Freezing of assets and travel ban
And she added that the issue of freezing the assets of officials and freezing their rights to travel will be among the decisions.
She also indicated that the immediate French move would target those responsible for the recent crackdown launched by the Iranian security forces once morest the demonstrators, following 19 days of protests condemning the killing of the Kurdish young woman, Mahsa Amini.
Colonna noted that the measures target figures in the regime who send their children to live in Western countries.
hissing flame
It is noteworthy that Amini, who hails from the Kurdish city of Saqqaz in northwestern Iran, died on September 16 (2022) three days following her arrest by the morality police, and then transferred to a hospital in Tehran.
Her death has since ignited anger in the country over several issues, including restrictions on personal freedoms and strict rules regarding women’s clothing, as well as the living and economic crisis experienced by Iranians, not to mention the strict rules imposed by the regime and its political structure in general. . Women played a prominent role in those protests, and female protesters brandished and burned their headscarves.
The demonstrations that swept dozens of cities during the past weeks and still include various races and classes, constituted the largest protests since the protests once morest fuel prices in 2019, and at the time it was reported that 1,500 people were killed (according to Archyde.com) in crackdowns once morest the demonstrators.
