Canada lays fresh sanctions against senior Iranian officials, entities – National | 24CA News
Canada has imposed extra sanctions on 4 Iranian people and 5 entities for his or her human rights violations, Global Affairs Canada stated on Friday.
This is Canada’s newest package deal of sanctions in opposition to the Iranian regime since early October as a result of “its ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations and actions that continue to threaten international peace and security,” a press launch said.
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“We affirm our solidarity with the people of Iran, who have bravely called out the regime for its human rights abuses — especially those of women and girls,” stated Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in an announcement.
The checklist of newly sanctioned people and entities contains the next:
- Morteza Talaei, Second Brigadier General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and former Commander of Tehran’s Law Enforcement Forces
- Ali Ghanaatkar Mavardiani, a senior choose, prosecutor and interrogator for the regime who labored in Evin Prison Court earlier than being appointed the pinnacle of the District 24 (Counter-Narcotics) Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran
- Hassan Karami, Commander of the Islamic Republic’s Law Enforcement Forces Special Units
- Safiran Airport Services, an Iranian cargo and business airline that has coordinated Russian navy flights between Iran and Russia, via which the Iranian regime transferred deadly Iranian-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to Russia
- Baharestan Kish Company, a subsidiary agency of the IRGC Cooperative Foundation that entered into agreements with the Basij Resistance Forces and the IRGC, to render analysis providers within the know-how sector, together with the event of Shahed-series UAV parts
- Javan News Agency, a media outlet below the Basij Cooperative Foundation that disseminates anti-Semitic messaging and the Iranian regime’s propaganda.
Also on the checklist of expanded sanctions are the Paravar Pars Aerospace Engineering Services and Research Company, and the Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines Company (DAMA).
The last particular person on the brand new checklist is Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, who’s Iran’s minister of knowledge and communication. The U.S. Treasury Department has described him as “a key player in the regime’s censorship and surveillance campaign.”
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According to Reuters, the United Nations stated on Nov. 29 that greater than 300 individuals have been killed up to now and 14,000 arrested in protests that started after the Sept. 16 dying in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini.
Amini was detained for allegedly violating Iran’s strict gown code for ladies.
Although the protests first centered on Iran’s obligatory scarf, or hijab, they’ve since reworked into one of many biggest challenges to the ruling clerics for the reason that chaotic years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
— with recordsdata from Reuters, The Associated Press and Global’s Rachel Gilmore
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