Germany to seek EU sanctions on Iran over protests crackdown: foreign minister

This grab taken from a UGC video shows Iranian women protesting in a street in the central city of Yazd as they rally following the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest. (AFP)

• “Within the framework of the EU, I am doing everything I can to get sanctions under way”

BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday said she was pushing for EU sanctions on Iran over the Islamic republic’s lethal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody.
“Within the framework of the EU, I am doing everything I can to get sanctions under way against those in Iran who are beating women to death and shooting demonstrators in the name of religion,” Baerbock wrote on Twitter.