Iran Adds RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, British Spy Chief, Others To Sanctions List

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda December 12, 2022

Iran has placed sanctions on more than two dozen people and entities, including RFE/RL’s Persian-language service, Radio Farda, ahead of an expected European Union decision to slap a new round of sanctions on Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told a weekly news conference that Europe was responsible for the current political and economic uncertainty rocking the country by “intervening in the domestic affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

After a summer of unrest over poor living conditions and economic woes sparked by U.S. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, protests broke out after the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody for a dress-code violation over her head scarf.

The government’s brutal crackdown on the demonstrations has been met with worldwide…