UK imposes further sanctions on Iranian regime officials
Iranian deputy prosecutor general Ahmad Fazelian is among the list of names in further sanctions announced by foreign secretary James Cleverly
The UK government has announced further sanctions on regime officials in Iran, including on deputy prosecutor general Ahmad Fazelian.
Foreign secretary James Cleverly said:”Those sanctioned today, from the judicial figures using the death penalty for political ends to the thugs beating protestors on the streets, are at the heart of the regime’s brutal repression of the Iranian people.
“The UK and our partners have sent a clear message through these sanctions that there will be no hiding place for those guilty of the worst human rights violations.”
The sanctions, alongside designations by the European Union and the United States, are designed demonstrate the international community’s unified condemnation of the horrific violence the Iranian regime is inflicting on its own people, including the execution of dual British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari.
Alongside the prosecutor general in Iran, whom the UK sanctioned last week, Fazelian is responsible for a judicial system characterised by unfair trials and egregious punishments, including use of the death penalty for political purposes.
There can be no hiding places for human rights violators.
Alongside our global partners, we are imposing further sanctions on the Iranian regime.
We’re targeting those responsible for oppressing the Iranian people.https://t.co/Z9xZlo6IYs— James Cleverly???????? (@JamesCleverly) January 23, 2023
Earlier this month British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari tragically became a victim of this brutal system.
Also among those now sanctioned are Kiyumars Heidari, Commander in Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ground Forces.
Heidari has publicly admitted to his and his force’s involvement in the violent response to the November 2019 protests that led to the death of at least hundreds of protesters, and he continues to order the repression of protests today.
Hossein Nejat, deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Sarallah HQ is also on the santions list.
Sarallah is the division of the IRGC responsible for the security of Tehran, where we have seen some of the most brutal violence against the Iranian people
The Basij Resistance Force and Salar Abnoush, the deputy commander of Abnoush are also sanctioned.
The UK government continues to face calls from MPs across all sides of the House to fully proscribe the IRCG, a move said by insiders to be “imminent.”
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