Tehran, Iran— Iran has announced new sanctions against the UK and European Union “individuals and entities” for supporting what it terms as terrorist groups in the Islamic Republic.
According to MEHR News Agency, sanctions have been imposed on 17 individuals and four entities for inciting and encouraging terrorist acts and violence against the Iranian people, interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, spreading lies and propagating false information about Iran, and participating in intensified sanctions against the people of Iran.
Quoting a statement of the ministry of foreign affairs, the news agency said that Iran had taken these measures against the Western individuals and entities for “the escalation of cruel sanctions against Iranian people as an economic terrorism.”
The statement released by the ministry on Monday afternoon condemned the UK and EU for violating international obligations on combating terrorism. “The Islamic Republic of Iran meanwhile condemns the act of the EU and the UK regime for supporting, facilitating and denying from countering the destructive acts of aforementioned individuals and entities.”
The statement further said: “All relevant national organizations and institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, consistent with the regulations adopted by the related authorities, will take appropriate measures, which are blocking of accounts and transactions in the Iranian financial and banking systems, blocking of assets within the jurisdiction of the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as prohibition of visa issuance and entry to the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for effective implementation of the above-mentioned sanctions.”
The people and entities against whom sanctions have been imposed are:
Frank Haun, CEO of Kraus-Maffei Wegman Military Industries
Flourian Seibel, CEO of Quantum Systems
Christoph Otten, Chairman of the ESG Board of Directors
Ms. Ilana Cicurel, Member of the European Parliament
Ms. Dominique Attias, from France
Edward Lintner, former member of the German Parliament
Martin Maria Otto Felix Patzelt, former member of the German Parliament
Leo Dautzenberg, former member of the German Parliament
Christoph De Vries, from Germany
Antonio Lopez Isturiz Whites, Member of the European Parliament
Uri Rosenthal, from the Netherlands
EU Legal entities
German-Israeli Society, Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft
The sanctioned individual and entities from the UK are as follows:
Individuals
Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Foundation UK
Admiral Benjamin John Key, a commander at the British Navy
Oliver Westmacott, President of AEGIS
Michelle Russel, Head of the Security Industry Authority (SIA)
John Tuckett, Chief of Immigration Services
Laurence Taylor, Deputy Director of the UK Counter-Terrorism Centre
Legal entities
Royal Marine Air and Drone Center Culdrose (RNAS Culdrose);
National Security Support Authority (affiliated with 5MI)
Telecommunications Information Licensing Department