US President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will impose additional costs this week on Iranians responsible for violence against protesters protesting against the Iranian government after the death of Mahsa Amini.

Reuters also reported that European countries, in turn, intend to impose sanctions on Iran over what it considered a "violent crackdown" on the protests that erupted after Amini's death.

Biden said - in a statement - that he was "deeply concerned about reports of the intensified violent crackdown on peaceful protesters in Iran," vowing to respond quickly.

"This week, the United States will impose additional costs on perpetrators of violence against peaceful protesters. We will continue to hold Iranian officials accountable, and support Iranians' rights to protest freely," he added.

Reuters quoted a source in the German Foreign Ministry on Monday that Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic submitted 16 proposals to impose new European Union sanctions on Iran due to its violent crackdown on protests related to women's rights.

The proposed measures will target people and institutions primarily responsible for suppressing protests, which erupted across Iran after the death of Amini, 22, after being held in police custody.

For its part, the Canadian government said that it imposed new sanctions on Iran on Monday over alleged human rights violations.

The Canadian government said in a statement that "these sanctions are a response to the gross violations of human rights committed in Iran, including the systematic oppression 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 it had summoned the Iranian Chargé d'Affairs over the crackdown on protests in his country, which began after Amini's killing.

"The violence to which protesters are being subjected in Iran by the security forces is truly shocking," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said.


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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 "agents of Washington" and some "traitors" of Iranians residing abroad.

He added - during the graduation ceremony of officers of the armed forces - that the responses to the death of the Iranian young woman were not logical, and that there was a plan to destabilize security and create 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.

It is noteworthy that the so-called "Guidance Police" had arrested Amini on September 13 last in Tehran for wearing "inappropriate clothes", according to the authorities, and she died 3 days later in the hospital after she fainted.

Her family says she was beaten to death in custody, while the Iranian police deny the allegations, and say she died of a heart attack.