In the wake of intensifying nationwide demonstrations in Iran during which security forces have shot dead 31 protesters over the past six days, the United States (US) has sanctioned the Iranian morality police over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody last Friday after she was arrested a day earlier for improperly wearing the hijab.
The Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions “for abuse and violence against Iranian women and the violation of the rights of peaceful Iranian protestors,” noting that the morality police were responsible for Amini’s death.
The Treasury sanctioned the chiefs of the morality police, intelligence ministry, army’s ground forces, Basij paramilitary group, and law enforcement forces. “These officials oversee organisations that routinely employ violence to suppress peaceful protesters and members of Iranian civil society, political dissidents, women’s rights activists, and members of the Iranian Baha’i community,” the statement read.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hailed Amini as a “courageous woman,” whose death was “yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against its own people.” She said the sanctions demonstrated the Biden administration’s “clear commitment” to defend human rights globally.
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