The EU on Monday sanctioned Iran's 'morality' police for the fatal beating in custody of Mahsa Amini and other security forces for the repression of subsequent protests.
a 22-year-old taken into custody by morality police who arrest women deemed to wear Islamic headscarves inappropriately.with those taking part demanding the end of the mullah-led regime.
"According to reliable reports and witnesses, she was brutally beaten and mistreated in custody, which led to her hospitalization and to her death on 16 September 2022," it said. Baerbock, arriving at an EU foreign ministers' meeting that adopted the sanctions, said the "we will not close our eyes" to the abuses being carried out in Iran.The United States, Britain and Canada have already announced their own sanctions against Iran for the rights violations taking place.Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn was skeptical that the sanctions would "hurt" Iran.
The developments happened as hopes are fading of restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that was torpedoed when then-president Donald Trump in 2018 withdrew US support.
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