Khaberni - The British Foreign Office announced today, Monday, that the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Iranian Interior Minister Iskandar Momeni and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, due to "serious human rights violations". According to the ministry, the sanctions targeted around 10 individuals and one organization for their role in "enabling and facilitating brutality and violence".
According to the British news agency (PA Media), the law enforcement forces in Iran were immediately subjected to disqualification of directors from their professional eligibility and freezing of assets.
According to the British Foreign Office, the list of other individuals who were immediately subjected to asset freezing, travel bans, and removal from their professional capacities included the police chief of Lorestan Province, Mohammad Reza Hashemi Far, the chief of public security police, Sayed Majid Faiz Jafari, and Babak Zanjani, an Iranian businessman who manages a network of companies that generate money and facilitate activities of the Revolutionary Guard.
