G7 threatens Iran with new sanctions over nationwide protest crackdown killing thousands

Group of Seven (G7) nations warned Iran connected Wednesday that they are prepared to enforce further sanctions connected the state if the authorities continues with its convulsive crackdown connected protests.

In a associated statement, the overseas ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S., joined by the European Union’s precocious representative, expressed "grave concern" implicit the reports of wide casualties, wide injuries and alleged quality rights abuses arsenic a effect of the spiraling unrest.

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Group of Seven (G7) nations warned Iran connected Wednesday that they are prepared to enforce further sanctions connected the country. (Government of Canada / Pool /Anadolu via Getty Images)

The improvement comes arsenic Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) announced the deaths of 2,403 protesters. Other reports accidental the decease toll is implicit 3,000, with the existent fig apt to beryllium higher. 

"We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are gravely acrophobic by the developments surrounding the ongoing protests successful Iran," the connection said.

"We powerfully reason the intensification of the Iranian authorities’ brutal repression of the Iranian people, who person been bravely voicing morganatic aspirations for a amended life, dignity and freedom, since the extremity of December 2025," it read.

The G7 besides stated it was "deeply alarmed astatine reports of deaths and injuries" and condemned what it described arsenic the "deliberate usage of unit and the sidesplitting of protesters, arbitrary detention, and intimidation tactics by information forces against demonstrators."

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Tear state is fired astatine protesters during an anti-government protest, Jan. 8, successful Tehran, Iran. (UGC via AP)

The protests, which began Dec. 28, came amid deepening economical distress and the illness of the Iranian rial. They rapidly dispersed nationwide and evolved into broader anti-government demonstrations.

The G7 ministers besides urged Iranian authorities to amusement restraint and extremity the usage of unit against civilians, calling connected Tehran to respect its planetary obligations and support the rights to "freedom of expression, to seek, person and impart information, and the state of relation and peaceful assembly, without fearfulness of reprisal."

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While the associated connection did not database circumstantial caller sanctions, it made wide that further enactment remains connected the table, signaling unity among starring Western powers.

"Iran’s continued crackdown successful usurpation of planetary quality rights obligations could punctual further restrictive measures from the G7," the ministers said.