{"id":56923,"date":"2023-03-08T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56923"},"modified":"2023-03-08T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:01:41","slug":"sanctioning-those-connected-to-human-rights-abuses-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56923","title":{"rendered":"Sanctioning Those Connected to Human Rights Abuses in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
03\/08\/2023 11:00 AM EST<\/div>\n

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n

Today \u2013 on International Women\u2019s Day \u2013 the United States is taking action in coordination with the European Union, United Kingdom, and Australia to promote accountability for the Iranian regime\u2019s continued human rights abuses, particularly those against women and girls, including those conducted in the course of the brutal crackdown on protests that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini.\u00a0 To that end, the United States is designating\u00a0 two Iranian officials overseeing prisons in Iran, two senior Iranian security leaders, three companies that supply Iranian law enforcement, and the heads of these companies, as well as a high ranking law enforcement official.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is imposing sanctions on Ali Chaharmahali, the Director General of Prisons in Alborz Province, and Dariush Bakhshi, the Head of Orumiyeh Central Prison.\u00a0 Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.\u00a0 Treasury is also sanctioning the Technical Director of the Cyberspace Affairs Deputy of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of Iran, Mahdi Amiri, for acting on behalf of an entity that has engaged in censorship or other activities that prohibit, limit, or penalize the exercise of freedom of expression or assembly.<\/p>\n

Further, Treasury is sanctioning Sayyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, and Habib Shahsavari, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Shohada Provincial Corps in West Azerbaijan Province.\u00a0 IRGC forces under the command of Shahsavari are alleged to have routinely detained and tortured individuals at IRGC detainment facilities in West Azerbaijan Province, and Iranian army personnel under Mousavi\u2019s command reportedly fired machine guns at protestors in November 2019.<\/p>\n

Finally, Treasury is sanctioning Naji Pas Company, an Iranian firm that supplies the Law Enforcement Forces of Iran (LEF), Iran\u2019s national police force, with specific equipment and goods; its CEO, Reza Asgharian; Entebagh Gostar Sepehr Company, a company that produces riot control equipment used by LEF units tasked with crowd suppression and cracking down on protestors; its CEO, Gholamreza Ramezanian Sani; Naji Pars Amin Institute, a company that provides security and protection services\u00a0 under the supervision of the LEF; and its CEO, Bahram Abdollahinejad.<\/p>\n

The United States remains deeply concerned that Iranian authorities continue to suppress dissent and peaceful protest, including through mass arrests, sham trials, hasty executions, the detention of journalists, and the use of sexual violence as a means of protest suppression.\u00a0 Together with allies and partners around the world, we continue to take action to support the people of Iran in the face of these and other human rights abuses by the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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