Tehran retaliates again, the day after a wave of sanctions from the European Union. Iran on Tuesday added to its sanctions list 13 entities and individuals from the EU and 23 from France, the United Kingdom and Germany in particular. Tehran has added “the following individuals and entities from the EU and UK regime to its sanctions list, for supporting terrorism (…), interfering in the country’s internal affairs and inciting violence and unrest in Iran,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
Iranian sanctions include financial measures and a ban on issuing a visa to enter the country, according to the ministry. The list of sanctions includes several military companies as well as ministers and parliamentarians from various European countries and MEPs, in particular the French minister responsible for equality between women and men, Isabelle Rome, the Belgian MEP Frédérique Ries and the German MPs Roderich Kiesewetter and Renata Alt.
Cascading sanctions
In France, these measures also target the Minister for Industry, Roland Lescure, the environmental candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Yannick Jadot, and the defense group Thales. On Monday, two Iranian ministers and 30 other people were sanctioned by the European Union for the repression of the demonstrations triggered in Iran by the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Amini.
Iran had announced on January 25 a series of sanctions against 25 individuals and entities from the European Union and nine from the United Kingdom, in reaction to the sanctions imposed by the latter two days earlier.