Death of Mahsa Amini: France urges the EU to take sanctions against Iran

It's time for sanctions in the West.

France is working within the European Union to have the freezing of assets and the travel ban against those responsible for the repression in Iran adopted, the head of French diplomacy said on Tuesday 4 October. 

The objective is to "respond to repression by targeting those responsible for it", underlined Catherine Colonna before the deputies, during the session of questions to the government. 

“Such measures can impact regime decision makers in Iran as they apply themselves to repression on the one hand, and on the other hand many of them send their children to live in the West. is to freeze their assets and freeze their travel rights,” she said. 

Demonstrations in Iran, following the death of Mahsa Amini@YaelBRAUNPIVET, President of the National Assembly, salutes the "incredible courage" of the "women, men, and [of] all the youth of Iran" who " express their thirst for freedom. #DirectAN pic.twitter.com/RtOFWxnEFA

— National Assembly (@AssembleeNat) October 4, 2022

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Penalties 

The United States has already announced, without specifying, new sanctions against Iran.

Germany called last week for EU sanctions against Iran, where protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested by morality police for breaching the Islamic Republic's strict dress code, are being violently suppressed. obliges women in particular to wear the veil.  

"Within the EU, I am doing everything possible to put in place sanctions against those in Iran who beat women to death and shoot protesters in the name of religion," the head of the country wrote on Twitter last Thursday. German diplomacy, Annalena Baerbock. 

The European Union also intends to sanction by “restrictive measures” the “murder of Mahsa Amini and the way in which the Iranian security forces reacted to the demonstrations”, announced Tuesday the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell.

“With the Member States, we will continue to examine all the options at our disposal, including restrictive measures”, he declared before the elected representatives of the European Parliament gathered in plenary session in Strasbourg. 

Protests at universities AND HIGH SCHOOLS in Iran continued today.

[The pictures of the schools are included in this thread.]

The University of Qom, one of the holiest cities in the Islamic Republic;

Woman, Life, Freedom#MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/Gsi6M2hR3b

— ERSHAD ALIJANI (@ErshadAlijani) October 4, 2022

Crimes "against humanity" 

At least 63 people were killed last week in Zahedan, southeastern Iran, by the repression of demonstrations by security forces, the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) said on Tuesday, revising on the rise. a previous report. 

The "murders" in Zahedan, a city in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, constitute "crimes against humanity", reaffirmed in a press release the NGO based in Norway.

Its previous report reported 41 victims in this region and 92 people killed in total in the country since September 16.  

During "Bloody Friday in Zahedan", security forces "bloodyly suppressed" a demonstration that had broken out after prayers, she said on Sunday. 

With AFP

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