UK to target Iranian officials with new sanctions regime
Al JazeeraIran’s foreign ministry summons the charge d’affaires of the British embassy in Tehran over ‘interference’ in its affairs. The United Kingdom’s government says it will establish a new sanctions regime against Iran that will give it greater powers to target decision-makers. “The Iranian regime is oppressing its own people, exporting bloodshed in Ukraine and the Middle East, and threatening to kill and kidnap on UK soil,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement on Thursday. Our new sanctions regime will help to ensure there can be no hiding place for those who seek to do us harm.” The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the charge d’affaires of the British embassy in Tehran over the “destructive British statements and interference in our affairs”, Iran’s Arabic-language television network Al-Alam reported on Thursday. Under the new British criteria, sanctions could also be targeted at those Britain says are involved in Iran’s undermining democracy and the rule of law in the UK, and hostile activities aimed at British people or property, or Britain’s allies.
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