SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Germany “in the strongest terms” condemns a violent crackdown by Iranian security forces against protesters and the state repression of journalists there, a German government spokesperson said on Monday.
Germany welcomed further sanctions by the European Union against Iran, and Berlin is looking at additional measures, the spokesperson added, without giving a timeline for them.
Iran’s clerical rulers have faced nationwide demonstrations since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, on Sept. 16, posing one of the boldest challenges to the rulers there since the 1979 revolution.
The use of violence by Iranian security forces to disperse the demonstrators has been widely condemned by the international community.
