Reuters news agency said that European countries intend to impose sanctions on Iran over what it said was a violent crackdown on the protests that erupted after the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was detained by the "Guidance Patrol", while the Iranian leader, Ali Khamenei, accused foreign parties of plotting to provoke riots in the country.
Reuters quoted a source in the German Foreign Ministry - today, Monday - that Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic submitted 16 proposals to impose new European Union sanctions on Iran due to what it considers a violent crackdown on protests related to women's rights.
The proposed measures will target people and institutions primarily responsible for suppressing the protests that erupted across Iran after the death of Amini, 22, after being held in police custody.
The German magazine "Der Spiegel" also quoted sources as saying that Germany and other European countries had proposed imposing sanctions on Iran because of its suppression of protests on their soil.
For its part, the Canadian government said it imposed new sanctions on Iran today, Monday, over alleged human rights violations, including in relation to the death of Mahsa Amini.
The Canadian government said in a statement that "these sanctions are in response to the gross violations of human rights committed in Iran, including the systematic repression of women, especially the heinous acts committed by the so-called "Guidance Police" in Iran, which led to the death of Mahsa Amini while in their custody. ".
The British Foreign Office also said today, Monday, that it had summoned the Iranian Chargé d'Affairs over the suppression of protests in his country, which began after the killing of Mahsa Amini, who is in police custody.
"The violence to which protesters are being subjected in Iran by the security forces is truly shocking," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said.
For her part, White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre said on Monday that the White House condemns the Iranian security forces' repression of peaceful protesters.
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On the other hand, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that the events that took place in the country during the past days, against the background of the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, were planned by external parties.
Khamenei accused the United States, Israel and what he described as Washington's agents and some Iranian traitors living abroad.
Khamenei added - during the graduation ceremony for officers of the armed forces - that the reactions to the death of the Iranian young woman were not logical, and that there is a plan to destabilize security and stability and stir up riots in the country, as he put it.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that some foreign channels have turned to what he described as a media operations room against his country, to incite violence and encourage riots.
Kanaani added that his country will employ all the capabilities available to it to confront these channels, and that it sent a sharp warning to the countries hosting these channels, he said.
The so-called "Guidance Police" arrested Amini on September 13 last in Tehran for wearing "inappropriate clothes", according to the authorities, and she died 3 days later in hospital after she fainted.
Amini's family says that she was beaten to death in custody, while the Iranian police deny the allegations, saying that she died of a heart attack.
Amini's death sparked a wave of demonstrations in several Iranian cities, and local media reported that riot police confronted hundreds of students at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, which is the most important scientific university in Iran, and the police used tear gas.