{"id":106698,"date":"2022-11-01T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=106698"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:02:31","slug":"iran-rejects-potential-sanctions-against-revolutionary-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/11\/01\/iran-rejects-potential-sanctions-against-revolutionary-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Rejects Potential Sanctions Against Revolutionary Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106699 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Revolutionary-Guard-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry says statements from German officials about imposing potential sanctions against Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps are irresponsible and not constructive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at a Monday briefing, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said such sanctions would be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Sunday that Germany and the European Union were considering enacting sanctions against the IRGC. She told broadcaster ARD there is ongoing consideration of how to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<div data-owner-ct=\"Article\" data-inline=\"False\">\n<div class=\"media-block also-read\"><a class=\"img-wrap img-wrap--size-3 also-read__img\" title=\"EU Mulls Adding Iran's Revolutionary Guards as Terrorists \u2013 German Official \" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/eu-mulls-adding-iran-s-revolutionary-guards-as-terrorists-german-official-\/6812457.html\"><span class=\"thumb thumb16_9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" enhanced\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/013b0000-0aff-0242-cee1-08daaa0706dc_w256_r1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - People gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Oct. 7, 2022 to protest against the government in Iran in memory of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's 'morality police'. \" data-src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/013b0000-0aff-0242-cee1-08daaa0706dc_w100_r1.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-block__content also-read__body also-read__body--h\"><a title=\"EU Mulls Adding Iran's Revolutionary Guards as Terrorists \u2013 German Official \" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/eu-mulls-adding-iran-s-revolutionary-guards-as-terrorists-german-official-\/6812457.html\"><span class=\"also-read__text--label\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 also-read__text p-0\">EU Mulls Adding Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards as Terrorists \u2013 German Official<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baerbock\u2019s comments came a day after the commander of the IRGC, Hossein Salami, warned protesters not to demonstrate anymore.<\/p>\n<div data-owner-ct=\"Article\" data-inline=\"False\">\n<div class=\"media-block also-read\"><a class=\"img-wrap img-wrap--size-3 also-read__img\" title=\"Iran Guards Head Warns Protesters: 'Today Is Last Day of Riots'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/iran-guards-head-warns-protesters-today-is-last-day-of-riots\/6810848.html\"><span class=\"thumb thumb16_9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" enhanced\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/80470000-c0a8-0242-4f41-08dab9e40c1e_cx0_cy10_cw0_w256_r1.jpg\" alt=\"Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Gen. Hossein Salami speaks during a funeral ceremony in Shiraz, Iran, Oct. 29, 2022. (Majid Asgaripour\/West Asia News Agency via Reuters) \" data-src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/80470000-c0a8-0242-4f41-08dab9e40c1e_cx0_cy10_cw0_w100_r1.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-block__content also-read__body also-read__body--h\"><a title=\"Iran Guards Head Warns Protesters: 'Today Is Last Day of Riots'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/iran-guards-head-warns-protesters-today-is-last-day-of-riots\/6810848.html\"><span class=\"also-read__text--label\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 also-read__text p-0\">Iran Guards Head Warns Protesters: &#8216;Today Is Last Day of Riots&#8217;<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Iran has seen weeks of protests since the mid-September death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by Iran\u2019s morality police for allegedly violating the country&#8217;s strict Islamic dress code for women.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some information for this story came from The Associated Press and Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry says statements from German officials about imposing potential sanctions against Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps are irresponsible and not constructive. Speaking to reporters at a Monday briefing, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said such sanctions would be illegal. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Sunday that Germany and the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106701,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106698\/revisions\/106701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}