Those targeted with sanctions include Britain’s attorney-general and army chief of staff, several European parliamentarians and European military officials
. Also targeted are the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy and three senior staffers at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which recently published a series of cartoons lampooning Iran’s clerical rulers.
The move came two days after the European Union widened its sanctions to target dozens of Iranian officials and organizations linked to the violent suppression of recent protests. It stopped short of branding Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group despite an appeal from the European Parliament.
Iranians have taken to the streets since September over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict Islamic dress code.
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