WASHINGTON – The US State Department on Tuesday blacklisted two Iranian officials from Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing them of their involvement in human rights violations during 2019 and 2020 protests in Iran.
IRGC interrogators Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari and their immediate family members are now ineligible for entry into the United States, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement adding: “We will continue to consider all appropriate tools to impose costs on those responsible for human rights violations and abuses in Iran.”
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US State Dept blacklists two Iranian officials over human rights violations
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US State Dept blacklists two Iranian officials over human rights violations
- IRGC interrogators Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari, their immediate families ineligible to enter the United States
UK, allies convinced Kremlin critic Navalny was poisoned
- That was the conclusion of the five governments based on analyzes of samples from Alexei Navalny – statement
LONDON: Britain and allies France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are convinced that late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin in a penal colony two years ago, they said in a joint statement on Saturday.
That was the conclusion of the five governments based on analyzes of samples from Navalny, according to the statement issued in London.
It added that the analyzes had conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine, a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America and not found naturally in Russia. The Russian government has denied any responsibility for Navalny’s death.
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