New set of sanctions against Tehran.

The EU will add eight Iranian individuals and entities to its blacklist of restrictive measures in order to sanction the supply to Russia of drones used against Ukraine, we learned on Friday, December 9, from diplomatic sources in Brussels.

The European Union will also add 20 people and an Iranian entity to sanction the human rights violations committed in this country during the repression of the demonstrations provoked by the death of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, during her detention by the police of the mores in September, the same sources said.

These new sanctions prepared in Brussels must be ratified Monday during a meeting of EU foreign ministers and then published in the Official Journal to come into force.

Their preparation had been announced by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in November, during a conference on security organized in Bahrain, a small kingdom in the Gulf located near the Iranian coast.

Already several sanctions 

At the beginning of November, Iran admitted having supplied drones to Russia but assured that these deliveries had taken place before the offensive in Ukraine.

kyiv and its Western backers accuse Russia of using Iranian-made drones to carry out attacks in Ukraine and consider the proliferation of these drones to be "a security risk".

The EU has already sanctioned the Iranian drone maker and three senior military officials with an asset freeze and visa ban for the deliveries.

Westerners are looking for evidence of Iran supplying ballistic missiles to Russia.

The EU also continues to react against the repression of demonstrations in Iran.

In November, it sanctioned 29 Iranian officials, including the Minister of the Interior, and the public channel Press TV, accused of having broadcast "forced confessions" from detainees.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that its country was showing "the greatest restraint in the face of the riots" in response to the indignant reactions of European countries after the first execution of a man involved in the protest movement.

Iranian authorities reported more than 200 deaths during these demonstrations and arrested thousands of people, among whom 11 were sentenced to death.

With AFP

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