(Berlin) The European Union is considering new sanctions against Iran, due to the repression in the country of the wave of protest triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, the German Chancellor said on Monday.
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“I am shocked that people who demonstrated peacefully in Iran have lost their lives, we condemn the disproportionate violence of the security forces and support the population,” said Olaf Scholz on Twitter.
“Our European Union sanctions are significant, we are considering additional measures,” he added, without further details.
The day before, its foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, had indicated that the possibility of designating the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization was being studied.
“As I made clear last week, we will be launching a new sanctions package, we are also looking at how we can list the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization,” she told German public broadcaster ARD. .
Iran denounced Monday in advance as “illegal” such a project.
The country has been rocked by protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd, three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused her of breaking the country’s strict dress code, including wearing the veil in public.
Dozens of people, mostly protesters but also members of the security forces, have been killed during the demonstrations. Hundreds more, including women, have been arrested.
The EU had already adopted on October 17 sanctions against the morality police and eleven Iranian leaders involved in the repression of the demonstrations triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini.
The Guardians are already placed by Washington on its blacklist of “terrorist” entities.