OTTAWA –
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly stated Thursday that Canada is including extra Iranian officers and entities to the sanctions record.
The measures will imply 17 people and three entities are barred from getting into Canada or doing enterprise with most Canadian corporations.
These sanctions are focused at Iranian officers who’ve dedicated or enabled human-rights violations in opposition to ladies, or perpetuated disinformation, Joly stated.
The record consists of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s latest longtime overseas minister, whom Canadian teams had requested to be sanctioned.
It additionally consists of Saeed Mortazavi, the prosecutor who ordered the torture of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian Canadian journalist who died in custody in 2003.
Joly stated it was significantly essential to record Mortazavi.
“My message to the Iranian regime is we’ve not forgotten, and we are going to always remember, and that is why we’re imposing these new sanctions,” Joly stated in an interview Thursday morning from Seoul, South Korea.
The contemporary sanctions may also apply to Brig.-Gen. Amir Hatami, Iran’s former defence minister and a senior adviser to the present commander-in-chief.
Also listed are Peyman Jebelli, the top of the state broadcaster, and Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of the state-controlled Kayhan newspaper that Joly’s workplace accuses of often publishing antisemitic propaganda, Holocaust denial and threats in opposition to Canada’s allies.
A senior prisons official Gholamreza Ziaei shall be listed, as will senior authorities adviser Ali Larijani. A commander of police forces in southwestern Iran, Manouchehr Amanollahi, can also be on the record.
Those listed can have their Canadian-held belongings frozen, as Ottawa tries to place a brand new regulation into motion to grab these belongings and disperse them to victims and human-rights defenders.
Later Thursday, federal cupboard ministers had been anticipated to share extra particulars of the spherical of sanctions announced final Friday, which are supposed to bar high-ranking members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from getting into Canada, for all times.
That transfer adopted mounting stress by the Conservatives and members of the Iranian diaspora in Canada to record that whole group as a terrorist group, which specialists argued just isn’t possible.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Oct. 13, 2022.