Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that Canada will levy sanctions on “dozens” of Iranian individuals and entities — which include the country’s so-known as “morality law enforcement” — as protection forces in Iran proceed to crack down violently on protesters.
Iran has been rocked by protests considering the fact that Mahsa Amini, a 22-calendar year-aged woman, died immediately after staying detained by Iran’s morality police this month — allegedly for not carrying her hijab correctly.
The demonstrations have unfold to all of Iran’s 31 provinces as persons take to the streets to specific their anger with Iran’s theocratic govt and its significant-handed policing of what women wear.
According to Iran’s condition media, at the very least 41 men and women have been killed through the protests. The state deployed dwell ammunition in opposition to demonstrators and has beefed up stability forces in Kurdish places of western Iran, the place the protests have been concentrated.
“To the women in Iran who are protesting and to those who are supporting them: We are with you,” Trudeau mentioned.
“We be a part of our voices — the voices of all Canadians — to the thousands and thousands of people today close to the entire world demanding that the Iranian govt listen to its people, close their repression of independence and rights, and enable girls and all Iranian individuals dwell their lives and express by themselves peacefully.”
Trudeau didn’t say who particularly would be sanctioned.
A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly did not immediately reply to a ask for for extra information and facts.
Since Iran shot down Flight PS752 — killing dozens of Canadians in the course of action — there have been phone calls from Opposition Conservatives and others for the federal governing administration to get a more difficult line on Iran and declare the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a paramilitary pressure tasked with defending the routine against internal and exterior threats — as a terrorist firm.
Requested about the IRGC, Trudeau mentioned Canada “now has 1 of the strongest sanctions regimes in the environment and we are heading to be there to do far more.”
“We have sanctioned some folks, customers of the IRGC, and we are heading to keep on thinking about just about anything else we can do with regard to sanctions,” he stated.
Canada has imposed an arms embargo on Iran, seized some routine-relevant assets, issued export and import constraints and levied monetary prohibitions to protest the destruction of PS752, Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions and the country’s several other human legal rights abuses.
