The EU foreign ministers agreed on Monday to add seven more people to the EU’s sanctions list over “serious human rights violations in Iran,” including judiciary members and high-ranking civilian officials responsible for “crackdown” on protests. The new listings include a public prosecutor and a deputy judge from Isfahan province “who are responsible for the trials against the protestors Saleh Mirhashmi, Majid Kazemi and Saeid Yaqoubi, subsequently executed in May 2023,” the Council of the European Union said in a statement. The European Union (EU) Monday decided to impose a ninth package of sanctions on an additional seven individuals responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran. The new listings include the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Isfahan province and the Deputy Judge of the Provincial Criminal Court of Isfahan province, who are responsible for the trials against protestors, said the EU Foreign Affairs Council, meeting in Luxembourg, in a statement. Monday’s sanctions also target the commander of IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) forces in Isfahan province, Governor and head of Rezvanshahr Security Council in Gilan province, and the Police Commander of Rezvanshahr in Gilan province, for the crackdown against protestors. Further, sanctions were imposed on the Governor of the city of Amol, responsible and the commander of the Imam Hossein Guards Corps of Karaj over the detention and killing of protestors. The EU foreign affairs ministers urged “the Iranian authorities to stop the violent crackdown against peaceful protests, cease their resort to arbitrary detentions as a means of silencing critical voices, and release all those unjustly detained.” They also called on Iran to stop “imposing and carrying out death sentences against protesters, reverse the death penalty sentences pronounced.” EU sanctions now apply to a total of 223 individuals and 37 entities in Iran. They consist of an asset freeze, a travel ban to the 27-member bloc, and a prohibition to make funds or economic resources available to those listed. — Agencies