Anadolu Agency Staff
09 January 2023•Update: 09 January 2023
BERLIN
Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador once again to condemn Tehran’s latest execution of protesters, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday.
“Today I ordered the Iranian ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office again to make it absolutely clear that the brutal repression, the oppression and the terrorization of the country’s own people, as well as the recent executions, will not go unnoticed,” Baerbock said at a news conference in Berlin.
“A regime that murders its own youth to intimidate its population has no future,” she asserted.
She vowed to increase pressure on Iran through EU human rights sanctions against individual high-ranking members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Nationwide protests erupted in mid-September after the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women.
The US and EU have imposed additional sanctions on Iran for its crackdown on protesters, as well as its decision to supply hundreds of drones to Russia for the war in Ukraine.
In November, Germany pressed for a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council that voted to condemn the clampdown and create an independent fact-finding mission.
