The Council decided today to impose restrictive measures on an additional 16 persons and three entities responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
The new listings target a variety of individuals and entities that played a key role in the suppression of street protests in January 2026, which has led to thousands of civilian casualties.
The Council is sanctioning Iran’s Deputy Minister of the Interior for Security and Law Enforcement Affairs, and various commanders of local branches of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directly involved in the violent repression of the protests.
Additionally, the Council is listing the Mohammad Rasulullah Corps, which is responsible for coordinating IRGC and Basij forces in Tehran, and the Imam Reza Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the local branch of the IRGC in Khorasan Razavi Province, where the crackdown on protests has been particularly brutal.
Furthermore, the Council is listing today members of the judiciary who participated in prosecutions against peaceful protesters, civil and social activists, including women’s rights activists, as well as journalists and political activists critical of the authorities. Some of the listed individuals are responsible for extorting forced confessions, for violating fair trial guarantees, and for issuing severe sentences against peaceful activists. Listings include the head of the Organization for Prisons and Security and Educational Measures of the Islamic Republic of Iran under whose tenure, serious human rights violations have been documented throughout Iranian prisons. Those include torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment, including enforcing the death penalty against juvenile offenders, arbitrary detention and physical abuse of political dissidents and individuals belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, instances of sexual violence and coercion against female prisoners.
Lastly, sanctions are imposed on Naji Research and Development Company (NRDC), an Iranian IT-services and consultancy company responsible for developing the Nazer mobile application used by Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces as a surveillance tool to monitor and control citizens, and the Head of Tehran’s Cyber Police, which plays a key role in filtering the internet, censorship, controlling the social media content and unjustly prosecuting citizens in relation to digital content.
Restrictive measures under the regime for serious human rights abuses and violations in Iran now apply to a total of 263 individuals and 53 entities. Those listed are subject to an asset freeze, and EU citizens and companies are forbidden from making funds, financial assets or economic resources available to them. Natural persons also face a travel ban that prohibits them from entering or transiting through EU territories. A ban on exports to Iran of equipment, that might be used for internal repression, and of equipment for monitoring telecommunications is also in place.
