The overseas ministry in Tehran blacklists three entities and 22 people from the EU in addition to a suppose tank and eight officers within the UK.
Tehran, Iran – Tehran has launched extra sanctions on European officers and entities for “supporting terrorism” and “fomenting unrest” in Iran.
Its Ministry of International Affairs on Wednesday blacklisted three entities and 22 people from the European Union along with one entity and eight officers from the UK.
Throughout the EU, it focused Radio J, a Paris-based Jewish group radio station; the European Buddies of Israel inside the European Parliament; and the Heberger building firm for “participation in building of manufacturing facility tools” allegedly used for creating chemical weapons deployed within the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
It additionally blacklisted a number of members of the European Parliament, metropolis officers, police and navy commanders, and three executives of the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo, which lately revealed a string of caricatures mocking Iranian leaders.
Two Dutch far-right political leaders, Rasmus Paludan and Edwin Wagensveld, had been sanctioned for “insulting the holy Quran”.
In the UK, Tehran blacklisted the Henry Jackson Society suppose tank along with the prosecutor common, a number of senior present and former navy and intelligence officers, and a prisons authority chief.
The brand new measures are much like a number of rounds of earlier sanctions introduced by Tehran, the newest of which got here final month. They embody entry bans into Iran and confiscation of any belongings the targets might possess within the nation.
The measures had been introduced two days after the EU and UK hit dozens of Iranian officers and entities with sanctions.
The EU, nonetheless, has mentioned shifting ahead with a proposal to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp as a “terrorist” organisation faces authorized challenges.
Tehran has harshly condemned the proposal, which was one in all a number of that had been overwhelmingly ratified in a decision by the European Parliament final week.
