Australia imposes sanctions on seven Russians and Iran's vice police

Australia has imposed sanctions against seven Russians whom Canberra considers involved in the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny (included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring). This is stated in the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Penny Wong, published on her website.

The restrictions are also related to "human rights violations," the statement said.

Sanctions have also been imposed on Iran's morality police and the Basij resistance force, a volunteer militia that is part of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Six citizens of the country fell under them, who, according to Canberra, “participated in <...> the suppression of protests after the death of student Mahsa Amini. Wong called them involved in the "oppression of the people of Iran."

Australia has imposed restrictive measures against three Iranians and one legal entity, whom it accuses of supplying drones to RUSSIA. Moscow denies reports of deliveries. Tehran did the same, but in early November, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that his country had given drones to Russia before the start of a special operation in Ukraine.

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Navalny became ill on August 20, 2020, when he flew on the Tomsk-Moscow route. The plane was urgently landed in Omsk, where the oppositionist was hospitalized. Two days later, he was transported to Germany, where he received treatment at the Berlin clinic "Charite".

German doctors concluded that Navalny was poisoned with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. The military laboratory of Germany soon confirmed the presence in the body of the oppositionist of traces of poisoning with poison from the Novichok group, scientists in Sweden and France agreed with these conclusions.

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In December of the same year, CNN published an investigation stating that eight people who the publication considered to be FSB officers could be involved in the attempt on Navalny.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the publication "the legalization of materials from American intelligence agencies." The FSB denied involvement in Navalny's departure, while the Foreign Ministry considered the poisoning of the politician "a planned provocation by Western countries."

Protests against the government have been going on in Iran since September, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the vice police for improperly wearing the hijab. More than 200 people were killed in the unrest, according to the Iranian National Security Council. The commander of the Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Sardar Hajizade, spoke of 300 victims, and the human rights organization Iran Human Rights - of 448 dead, including 60 children and 29 women. The vice police were abolished after the protests.

Sanctions against Iran and Russia for violation of human rights, as well as because of the poisoning of Navalny, have already been introduced by CANADA, the EU and the usa .