WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday (Sep 15) led international calls of solidarity with Iranians one year after Mahsa Amini's death sparked mass protests, with Western powers unveiling a series of new sanctions. The anniversary of Amini's death in the custody of the clerical state's morality polic
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday led international calls of solidarity with Iranians one year after Mahsa Amini's death sparked mass protests, with Western powers unveiling a series of new sanctions.
"Iranians alone will determine the fate of their country, but the United States remains committed to standing with them - including providing tools to support Iranians' ability to advocate for their own future," Biden added. Also sanctioned was Gholamali Mohammadi, the head of Iran's Prisons Organization, who the Treasury said presides over serious human rights abuses including torture and rape.
The European Union added to its own blacklist four Iranian officials - a commander in the elite Revolutionary Guard, two regional police chiefs and a prison boss.Hoping to keep pressure in place, the US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed, nearly unanimously, a bill in honor of Amini that would make it difficult to remove sanctions against top officials including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Biden's Republican critics have savaged the deal as a"ransom" that would enrich a hostile regime. Iran earned the US$6 billion by selling oil to South Korea, which froze the funds out of fear of US sanctions imposed by previous president Donald Trump. Blinken also said that the United States was"not engaged in discussion or negotiation" with Iran over its contested nuclear program.
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