{"id":234103,"date":"2026-01-12T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234103\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:49:08","slug":"kaja-kallas-to-push-new-iran-sanctions-after-deadly-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234103\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaja Kallas to push new Iran sanctions after deadly crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            12\/01\/2026 &#8211; 10:39 GMT+1\n            <\/p>\n<p>The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, is set to push for fresh sanctions on Iran after a crackdown that has reportedly claimed hundreds of lives since protests began nearly two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am prepared to propose additional sanctions in response to the regime\u2019s brutal repression of protesters,\u201d Kallas told the German daily Welt and POLITICO, adding that these would complement the wide range of sanctions already in place against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas\u2019s initiative comes as Iran\u2019s death toll continues to rise following demonstrations that erupted on 28 December over the collapse of the rial. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/01\/12\/at-least-544-killed-in-iran-protests-activists-say-as-trump-says-tehran-has-proposed-negot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a report <\/a>by the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, more than 10,600 people have been detained during the two weeks of protests. Of the reported fatalities, 48 were security personnel and 496 were demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2010009790781542596?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">said recently<\/a> that Brussels was \u201cmonitoring\u201d the situation, while Parliament President Roberta Metsola wrote on X that \u201cEurope must understand its duty and need to act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has adopted a wide-ranging set of sanctions against Iran \u2013 mainly travel bans and asset freezes \u2013 in response to serious human rights violations, nuclear proliferation activities, and military support for Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc has sanctioned more than 230 Iranians, including the country\u2019s interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as more than 40 other entities.<\/p>\n<p>However, the EU\u2019s approach to the current crisis stands in sharp contrast to US military threats. <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump recently said he would be \u201chitting them very hard\u201d if Iranian leaders kill protesters. Although no decision has reportedly been made, US media reports say the American president is being briefed on new options for military strikes in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 12\/01\/2026 &#8211; 10:39 GMT+1 The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, is set to push&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1685,42,127099,43,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":{"0":"post-234103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-european-union","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran-sanctions","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}