Canada on Monday imposed new sanctions against four Iranian individuals and two entities, including the Iranian Disciplinary Force, for participating in the «lethal repression» against protesters, and al Mustafa International University, for spreading the «ideology of the regime through its affiliates abroad.»
According to Ottawa, the Disciplinary Force also arbitrarily detains unarmed Iranian demonstrators, while the university «regularly» recruits students into the foreign legions of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Forces.
The Canadian Foreign Ministry has also added to its ‘blacklist’ Hosein Rahimi, commander of the Tehran Police already sanctioned by other Western countries, as well as Asadollah Jaffari, head of the judicial administration in the province of North Khorasan, and Seyed Morteza Mousavi, deputy head of the judicial administration in the province of Mazandaran.
«The Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters, and in particular women, continues to violate the Human Rights of the Iranian people. Its actions have resulted in the death and injury of many Iranians, including children, who have been attacked in supposedly safe spaces, such as schools,» the Canadian side said.
Ottawa has also assured that it will not stand «idly by» in the face of violence in the country, while also echoing Iran’s «active support for Russian atrocities in Ukraine through arms sales and the supply of Iranian military personnel to train and assist the Russian Army.»
In this regard, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly stressed that the Iranian people «have endured for too long a regime that has repressed and violated their humanity. «They demand that their human rights be respected, and it is our duty to echo and amplify their voices,» she concluded.
