Canada announced Friday another round of sanctions against Iran, including a technology company that developed components of drones that the West says have been used by Russia to attack Ukraine.
“Canada will not stand idly by while the regime’s human rights violations increase in scope and intensity against the Iranian people… (and it takes) actions that continue to threaten international peace,” Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement.
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In November, Ottawa had already sanctioned two Iranian drone makers, Shahid Aviation Industries and Qods Aviation Industries.
Added to this new round were the Baharestan Kish Company, which has contracted with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp to provide drone research.
Also making the Canadian sanctions list was Safiran Airport Services for having “coordinated Russian military flights between Iran and Russia, through which the Iranian regime transferred lethal Iranian-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Russia,” said the statement.
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The United States had already taken measures against both companies.
Ottawa also sanctioned the ultra-conservative Revolutionary Guards-linked daily Javan, accused of disseminating “anti-Semitic messaging and the Iranian regime’s propaganda.”
Brigadier-general Morteza Talaei, senior judge Ali Ghanaatkar Mavardiani, and security forces commander Hassan Karami were slapped with sanctions too.