Protesters in downtown Tehran, Iran. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 20Kazem Gharib-Abadi, deputy head of the judiciary for international affairs, secretary general of Iran's Supreme Council for Human Rights, said on Thursday that the US and European countries are using sanctions as a tool to foment unrest within Iran. On Monday, the European Union imposed sanctions against 11 individuals and four organizations for the suppression of protests in Iran. Under the sanctions, among other organizations, was the Iranian vice police. On Thursday, the EU included three more individuals and one organization from the Islamic Republic in the new restriction package for allegedly supplying the Russian Federation with drones, which were repeatedly denied both in Moscow and Tehran. 
Not only the Saudis: the United States is losing another key country in the Islamic world»The United States and European countries are using sanctions as a tool to foment unrest, rebellion and instability inside Iran,» ISNA quoted Gharib-Abadi as saying. in mid-September in connection with the death of a young girl, Mahsa Amini, after she was detained by the vice police. Protests and riots are taking place in the provinces of Gilan, Khuzestan, Balochistan and Sistan, Tehran and Kurdistan. On September 13, Amini was detained in Tehran by the vice police and sent to one of the Faraja centers belonging to the police department and military intelligence for an explanatory conversation. In this center, the girl had a heart attack, after which she was immediately taken to the hospital. Three days later, on September 16, she died. Residents blamed the vice police for Mahsa's death. People in different cities of the country began to gather on the streets to protest. Videos have been posted on social media showing girls cutting off their hair and burning a «hijab» or «Rusari» headscarf (which must necessarily cover the head of an Iranian woman). jpg» />Tehran urged not to link negotiations on the nuclear program with protestsAs a result, protests and riots were continuously held in a number of large cities of Iran for several weeks. According to the latest reports, four members of the Basij militia were killed during them, and another 180 were stabbed. According to unofficial local media reports, 41 people were killed and about 100 people were injured. Videos of police being brutally treated and beaten by protesters were posted on social media. In addition, people staged robberies and pogroms on the streets of cities, causing damage to public and state infrastructure. So, for example, in the first days of the protests, more than 60 ambulances were smashed. Calls for subversion are being circulated on fake Telagram channels. In response, the Iranian authorities locally turn off the Internet, and security forces daily arrest protesters. According to the Iranian authorities, the unrest in the country was directed from abroad. In this regard, the ambassadors of Great Britain and Norway, as well as the charge d'affaires of France in Iran, were summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry. A note of protest was presented by a European diplomat in connection with the propaganda of subversive, anti-Iranian messages in their media, as well as calls for the overthrow of power in Iran. EU plans to reach agreement on sanctions against Iran
