Iran's clerical regime could face intensified international sanctions pressure over its violent response to the protests against Mahsa Amini’s recent death in police custody.
“We are sanctioning the so-called morality police like the U.S. is doing — and key leaders of that morality police,” Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told reporters Friday during a joint press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken."But I must say that lots of things are on the table. And we’ve done a lot, but we need to do more and will do more.”
“The Iranian population is staying on the coming onto the street more often ... between shorter intervals,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Behnam Ben Taleblu told the Washington Examiner. “These protests are not going away anytime soon. And like I said, the diminishing period of time between each iteration of protests is not lost on the regime. The most [recent] significant round was in May of 2022.
Iranian officials have attempted to short-circuit the dissidents by imposing an internet blackout, in addition to launching ballistic missiles and other ordnance at the Kurdish region of neighboring Iraq, which Tehran has accused of fomenting the protests. That crackdown has created a surge in Iranian demand for virtual private networks and other programs designed to circumvent surveillance and restrictions.
That international backlash could lead to a stiffening of sanctions imposed on Iran by the European Union after years of tailoring European sanctions policies to the requirements of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the United States exited in 2018. Since President Joe Biden took office, U.S.
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