
Gholam-Hossein Mohsei-Eje’I, Chief Justice of Iran.Ali Akbar Velayati, Member of the Expediency Discernment Council.Sayyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Army.Saeed Jalili, Member of the Expediency Discernment Council.Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of Iran’s Assembly of Experts.Zeinab Soleimani, Head of Qassem Soleimani Foundation.Safer Ali Mousavi, Chief Commander of the IRGC’s Intelligence Unit in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan.Mohsen Razaei, Vice-President of Iran for Economic Affairs.Gholamreza Soleimani, Senior Officer in the IRGC Corps.Alireza Tangsiri, Commander of the Navy of the IRGC.Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Parliament.Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.Sayyed Mohammed Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, Secretary of Iran’s Headquarters of the Office of Enjoining Right and Forbidding Evil.Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh, Head of the Morality Police.Esmail Khatib, Minister of Intelligence and Security.
Esmail Qaani, Commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC.Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (“ IRGC”).
Major General Mohammed Hussein Bagheri, Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces.
A Canadian entry ban on senior officials playing a leading role in implementing repressive measures and human rights violations in Iran. A freeze on the targeted individuals’ and entities’ assets in Canada and. The sanctions are being imposed under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations. Amini’s family allege that she was beaten to death while in police custody, while Iran’s police authorities have denied those allegations and responded that Amini died of a heart attack. Amini was arrested on September 13, 2022, in Tehran for “unsuitable attire” by the Morality Police. Amini died while in the custody of Iran’s Morality Police. On October 3, 2022, the Honourable Melanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Canada was imposing sanctions on 25 Iranian officials and 9 Iranian entities/organizations that are directly involved with implementing “repressive measures violate human rights and spread the Iranian regime’s propaganda and misinformation.” This announcement comes just one week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada’s intention to impose sanctions on Iranian individuals and its leadership.Ĭanada’s sanctions are in response to alleged human rights violations, including Mahsa Amini’s death.