MEPs from the European Parliament’s main political groups called on Wednesday 9 November for additional EU sanctions against the Iranian regime.
In an urgently convened debate, representatives of the EPP, David Lega (Swedish), S&D, Pedro Marques (Portuguese), and Greens/EFA, Hannah Neumann (German), called for sanctions against Iranian parliamentarians who voted to apply the death penalty to peaceful protesters who were arrested. “We are talking about more than 1,400 people, we must...