The Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran has announced the imposition of sanctions against some US authorities involved in gross human rights violations by suppressing a pro-Palestinian student protest movement, Iranian media reported.
The Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that the new sanctions are imposed in accordance with Iran’s 2017 law on “Countering Human Rights Violations and Adventurist and Terrorist Activities of the United States in the Region.”
According to Article 5 of the law, the following US individuals are sanctioned for “their involvement in human rights violations by suppressing peaceful protests by students and professors of US universities who supported the oppressed Palestinian people against the Israeli crimes in Gaza.”
“List of rights violators”
The following individuals were embargoed:
- William Billy Hitchens, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety,
- Eddie Guerrier, commander of Georgia Field Operations,
- Linda J. Stump-Kurnick, Chief of the University of Florida Police Department,
- Pamela A. Smith, chief of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department,
- Jeffery Carroll, executive assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police Department,
- Carl Jacobson, Chief of the New Haven Police Department,
- Shane Streepy, assistant chief of the University of Texas Police Department (UTPD),
- Michael Cox, Commissioner of the Boston Police Department,
- Scott Dunning, Chief of the Central Division of the Indiana University Police Department,
- Michael Thompson, Chief of Police, Arizona State University,
- John Brockie, Chief of Police of the California State Police Department in Long Beach.
Pursuant to articles 6, 7 and 8 of the sixth section of the Act, the aforementioned individuals will be subject to the sanctions provided for in the Act, which include blocking accounts and transactions in the Iranian financial and banking systems, blocking assets within Iran’s jurisdiction, and prohibiting the issuance of visas and entry into the territory of the Islamic Republic.
All relevant national organisations and institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with the regulations adopted by the relevant authorities, will take the necessary measures for the effective implementation of the said sanctions.
