Canada sanctions 17 more Iranian officials amid unrest over Mahsa Amini death
It also includes Saeed Mortazavi, the prosecutor who ordered the torture of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian Canadian journalist who died in custody in 2003.“My message to the Iranian regime is we haven’t forgotten, and we will never forget, and that’s why we’re imposing these new sanctions,” Joly said in an interview Thursday morning from Seoul, South Korea.The fresh sanctions will also apply to Brig.-Gen.
Also listed are Peyman Jebelli, the head of the state broadcaster, and Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of the state-controlled Kayhan newspaper that Joly’s office accuses of regularly publishing antisemitic propaganda, Holocaust denial and threats against Canada’s allies. A senior prisons official Gholamreza Ziaei will be listed, as will senior government adviser Ali Larijani. A commander of police forces in southwestern Iran, Manouchehr Amanollahi, is also on the list.Those listed will have their Canadian-held assets frozen, as Ottawa tries to put a new law into action to seize those assets and disperse them to victims and human-rights defenders.
That move followed mounting pressure by the Conservatives and members of the Iranian diaspora in Canada to list that entire organization as a terrorist group, which experts argued is not feasible.
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