(Reuters) – Canada decided on Friday to bar senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard officials from entering its territory and promised more targeted sanctions in response to Tehran’s treatment of women and the civilian plane slaughtered in 2020.
Iran has been under fire from the international community since the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police.
The death of the 22-year-old young woman sparked a major protest movement in Iran.
The medical examiner who autopsied Mahsa Amini concluded that the young woman did not succumb to beatings but to the failure of several of her organs caused by cerebral hypoxia, the official Irna agency reported on Friday.
The Canadian government also continues to pressure Tehran over the Ukrainian airliner
International Airlines shot down in January 2020.
No fewer than 138 of the 176 people found dead had ties to Canada.
Half of the senior officials of the Revolutionary Guards, more than 10,000 officers and officers, are affected by the measure prohibiting entry into Canadian territory.
“The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization,” said Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, even though the government has not formally listed it as a terrorist organization.
(Report Costas Pitas in Los Angeles and Steve Scherer in Ottawa, French version Matthieu Protard)
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