The U.K. has imposed sanctions on Iranian security forces
People wave flags and hold placards during a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini who died in custody of Iran's morality police, in London on Oct 8, 2022.nternational pressure on Iran’s Islamic leadership mounted on Monday after the U.K. imposed sanctions on its security forces amid reports of oil workers joining nationwide protests and fresh violence in a Kurdish city.
Amini was arrested for allegedly flouting Iran’s strict Islamic dress code and her death on Sept. 16 sparked some of the biggest protests in the country since the 1979 revolution. The sanctions target the entire division as well as the head of the IRGC’s plainclothes militia, known as the Basij, according to a statement from the U.K.’s foreign ministry.
Unverified videos posted on Twitter purportedly show scores of laborers and uniformed workers marching through a plant in Assaluyeh in the oil-rich province of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf. They can be heard whistling and chanting “don’t be afraid! We’re all together” and “death to the dictator”.
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