The UK is also imposing sanctions today on five leading political and security officials in Iran for committing serious human rights violations.
"These sanctions send a clear message to the Iranian authorities - we will hold you to account for your repression of women and girls and for the shocking violence you have inflicted on your own people."
The sanctions are intended to ensure the individuals listed cannot travel to the UK, and that any of their assets held in the UK, or by UK persons anywhere, will be frozen."For decades the morality police have used the threat of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they behave in public," the FCDO said.
Last week, the Foreign Office summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in the UK, Mehdi Hosseini Matin, over the country's crackdown on protests.Iran's government insists Ms Amini was not mistreated, but her family says her body showed
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