The European Union will "start the necessary work" to hit Iran with heavier sanctions after Saturday's aerial attack on Israel, the bloc's top diplomat has said. #EuropeNews

The European Union will “start the necessary work” to hit Iran with heavier sanctions after Saturday’s aerial attack on Israel, the bloc’s top diplomat has said.

Speaking following an exceptional virtual meeting of EU foreign ministers on Tuesday, Josep Borrell said he would ask his services to study the possibility of expanding existing EU sanctions against Iranian drone technology.

It would see the current sanctions regime - established in July 2023 to punish Iran for aiding Putin’s war machine with unmanned drones - expanded to include missiles and to also cover Iran’s proxies in the region.

The bloc would also weigh the possibility of listing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation, he said, while stressing that such a move would be difficult since the military branch has not yet been associated with an act of terrorism in any of the EU’s member states.

  • @[email protected]English
    43•7 months ago

    Hamas attacks Israel, Israel retaliates. "Israel has the right to defend itself!

    Israel attack Iran, Iran retaliates. “Nope, that’s sanctions”

    If that’s not a double standard I don’t know what is.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•7 months ago

      And they wonder why Hamas resorts to terrorism…

      Terrorism just means you’re fighting the West without spending a lot of money.

  • @febraEnglish
    40•7 months ago

    The cognitive dissonance is deafening. Israel attacks Iran, Iran retaliates, Iran is to be sanctioned now??

    • @apfelwoiSchoppenEnglish
      9•7 months ago

      Israel and the US act outside the bounds of international law all the time but scream when others with less overt power do the very same. Classic projection.

      • @febraEnglish
        11•7 months ago

        Sure fam. It always starts exactly when Israel says it starts and that isn’t to be questioned, right?

          • @then_three_moreEnglish
            6•7 months ago

            Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy wasn’t in response to anything specific. So in this case yes they did start it.

              • @then_three_moreEnglish
                5•7 months ago

                That’s beside the point. Israel’s attack on the embassy wasn’t in response to a specific action. If it were they’d have shouted about it.

                And your argument would justify the UK having attacked the USA during the Troubles.

  • @njm1314English
    15•7 months ago

    No, more sanctions I’m sure that’ll do it, they sure been working so well so far. I mean I’m sure there’s no way that they’ll disproportionately damage the poor and the desperate while the wealthy still managed to get along just fine.

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    1•7 months ago

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    The European Union will “start the necessary work” to hit Iran with heavier sanctions after Saturday’s aerial attack on Israel, the bloc’s top diplomat has said.

    The bloc would also weigh the possibility of listing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation, he said, while stressing that such a move would be difficult since the military branch has not yet been associated with an act of terrorism in any of the EU’s member states.

    EU countries have so far doubled down on their commitment to Israel’s security whilst urging Netanyahu’s government to exercise caution to prevent the conflict from spilling over into all-out war.

    Some of these sanctions have been imposed in response to Tehran’s human rights violations - including following the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 at the hands of Iran’s morality police - and the ensuing draconian crackdown on protesters.

    More recently, the bloc established a new regime to prohibit the EU export of critical components used to manufacture deadly drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), that are then sold on to Moscow to bolster its war efforts in Ukraine.

    The attack was a response to Israel’s recent airstrike on an Iranian diplomatic building in the Syrian capital of Damascus, which saw seven members of its Revolutionary Guard, including two top commanders, killed.

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