"Today we will adopt a new package of sanctions against those responsible for the repression of demonstrators. I spoke with the Iranian minister about this, the nuclear deal, the military support for Russia that must be stopped".

This was stated by the EU representative for foreign policy,

Josep Borrell

, speaking with reporters before the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.

Any countermeasures by Tehran "are part of the game," he added.

Yesterday a phone call between Iranian President

Ebrahim Raisi

and Russian

Vladimir Putin

to sanction a

strengthening of cooperation

between the two countries.

According to Human Rights Watch, at least 305 people have died in the protests, including 38 children and 15,000 arrests of demonstrators in two months since the protest triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the moral police for failing to correctly worn the mandatory hijab.

Among those arrested, mostly detained in the notorious Evin prison, at least 2000 are awaiting trial, accused of being "enemies of God" and of waging "war against God", crimes that in Iran lead to capital punishment.

The official announcement of a first

death sentence

arrived yesterday from the Iranian judiciary, but there are also other sentences already issued.

Meanwhile, an Iranian military source has confirmed attacks with "missiles and drones" against Kurdish opposition groups in

Iraqi Kurdistan,

considered the most dangerous ethnic region by the ayatollahs.

According to the Iranian agency Irna, this is the second missile and drone attack by Iranian revolutionary guard forces against the headquarters of Kurdish groups, defined as "terrorist and sectarian" by Tehran, in northern Iraq.

The first recent attack occurred in late September.

According to Hamzeh Seyyed ul-Shohada of the Iranian guards during the recent protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, over 100 members of the Kurdish groups of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and Komala were arrested in western Iran.

According to local authorities, at least one death was recorded in the attack and eight were injured.

"Five Iranian missiles hit a building used by the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran," Koysanjaq Mayor Tariq al-Haidari told AFP.