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Iran’s judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei has warned "rioters" could be charged with "moharebeh" (enmity against God), "efsad fil-arz" (corruption on Earth) and "baghy" (armed rebellion). / Tasnim news agency, cc-by-sa 4.0
EU, UK slap sanctions on Iran on same day regime announces first ‘unrest’ death sentence
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The European Union and UK are attempting to strike at the heart of Iranian power structures with additional sanctions slapped on Tehran in response to its often bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
The announcements of the EU sanctions and UK sanctions, on November 14, came on the same day that a court in the Islamic Republic issued the first death sentence to a person arrested for taking part in the protests that have engulfed the country for nearly two months. A Revolutionary Court in Tehran determined that the defendant, who was not named, had set fire to a government facility and was guilty of "enmity against God".
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French President Emmanuel Macron, meanwhile, added to pressure on the Iranian regime by characterising the protests as a “revolution”. "Something unprecedented is happening," France's Emmanuel Macron told France Inter radio. "The grandchildren of the [1979] revolution are carrying out a revolution and are devouring it."
The EU’s new sanctions on Iran were meant "to send a clear message to those who think they can suppress, intimidate and kill their own people without consequences," Reuters reported German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock as telling reporters as she arrived for a meeting with her
EU counterparts in Brussels. "They cannot," she added. "The world, Europe is watching."
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced that the UK had designated Iranian Communications Minister
Issa Zarepour and a range of local law enforcement and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials who have been involved in, and ordered, the crackdown on the protests.
Zarepour and Vahid Mohammad Naser Majid, chief of Iran’s Cyber Police, “were designated for shutting down the internet in Iran, including disabling Whatsapp and Instagram, and banning