{"id":52937,"date":"2024-06-01T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52937"},"modified":"2024-06-01T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:40:13","slug":"iran-condemns-eu-sanctions-over-drone-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52937","title":{"rendered":"Iran condemns EU sanctions over drone programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran on Saturday criticized the European Union&#8217;s imposition of new sanctions on high-ranking officials and the Revolutionary Guards for supplying drones to Russia and its Middle East allies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s measures unveiled on Friday target Iran&#8217;s Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani and Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Guards&#8217; foreign operations arm, the Quds Force, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions also target an armed forces command centre, the head of a state aviation firm and the Kavan Electronics Behrad company.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic republic&#8217;s foreign ministry described the move as &#8220;regrettable&#8221;, saying they were based on &#8220;repeated, absurd, and baseless excuses and accusations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The European Union&#8230; once again resorted to the obsolete and ineffective tool of sanctions against the powerful Iran,&#8221; ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions forbid any EU citizen or company from engaging in business with the listed individuals and organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Saturday criticized the European Union&#8217;s imposition of new sanctions on high-ranking officials and the Revolutionary Guards for supplying drones to Russia and its Middle East allies. The EU&#8217;s measures unveiled on Friday target Iran&#8217;s Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani and Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Guards&#8217; foreign operations arm, the Quds Force, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1649],"class_list":["post-52937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-iran-condemns-eu-sanctions-over-drone-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}