EU Imposes Sanctions on Iranian Officials and Organizations... "Mojtaba Excluded"

The European Union (EU) announced new sanctions on March 11 (local time) targeting 19 Iranian officials and organizations.

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, issued a statement on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter) that day, declaring that these individuals and groups committed "serious human rights violations" by violently suppressing large-scale anti-government protests in January. She stated that the EU would continue to hold Iran accountable.

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Photo by AP Yonhap News

According to AFP, citing diplomatic sources, the new sanctions do not include Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and the recently appointed Supreme Leader of Iran, who succeeded his father after he was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike.

High Representative Kallas stated, "Even as the war in Iran continues, the EU will protect regional interests and pursue those responsible for repression within Iran," adding, "We also want to send a message that the future of Iran cannot be built upon oppression."

Individuals and organizations subject to these sanctions are banned from traveling to the EU and will have their assets within the region frozen.

In January, the EU had designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization for its leading role in the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in Iran.

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