The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement today, Wednesday, that Canada imposed new sanctions on Iran targeting individuals involved in alleged human rights violations and companies accusing it of providing Russia with drones for their use in the Ukraine war. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that this is the fifth package of the sanctions imposed by Canada on Iran this year targets six individuals and two entities.
Last October, Ottawa imposed sanctions on Iran, in response to the government’s violations of human rights and its destabilizing actions.
She said at the time that the new sanctions list includes 3 entities and 17 Iranian personalities, including Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian, according to Reuters.
It is reported that since the death of the Kurdish young woman, Muhsa Amini on September 16, 3 days after she was arrested by the Ethics Police, and then transferred her to a hospital in Tehran, the demonstrations in the country did not calm down.
While the authorities cut off the Internet from mobile phones intermittently, in order to besiege the protesters, and prevent the spread of calls for demonstrations.
The officials also accused the demonstrators of dependency abroad, and betrayed them, while the security forces arrested hundreds, including university students and school students.
It is noteworthy that the death of Amani has since ignited the fire of anger over several issues in the country, including the restrictions imposed on personal freedoms and strict rules related to women’s clothes.
In addition to the living and economic crisis that the Iranians suffer from, not to mention the strict rules imposed by the regime and its political composition in general.
The demonstrations that have prevailed in all parts of the country during the past weeks and still comprehensively formed the largest protests since those that came out in protest against fuel prices in 2019, and the time of the killing of 1500 people, according to Reuters, have been in repression against the demonstrators..
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