DW News published this video item, entitled “EU plans to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a ‘terrorist group’ | DW News” – below is their description.
As the EU prepares its next set of sanctions in response to Iran’s repression of public protests, both the European Parliament and the president of the European Commission have spoken out in favor of adding the entire Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the bloc’s list of terrorist groups or organizations.
Diplomats laying the groundwork for the next package of sanctions, likely to be announced at a meeting of EU members’ foreign ministers next Monday, told news agencies on Wednesday that the details of the package had been finalized in the preliminary talks, without saying exactly what had been agreed.
Iran has launched a brutal crackdown on public protests that began following the September 16 death of a young Kurdish Iranian, Jina Mahsa Amini, while in detention.
She was detained for violating Iran’s strict dress codes for women. Her death led to a growing protest movement, often involving young women protesting about the obligation to wear a headscarf, but soon expanding to more general displays off public dissent.
As well as numerous arrests, it has also started announcing a series of death sentences against people allegedly involved in the public unrest, sometimes reportedly in trials lasting just a matter of minutes. Four people are known to have been hanged on charges connected to the protests, among dozens of sentences issued.
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