INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Iran&s Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to Tehran on Monday for the third time in three weeks over the UK&s &interventions
in Iran&s internal affairs& and imposing new sanctions on the Islamic Republic.The director general of the Western Europe Division at the
Iranian Foreign Ministry conveyed Iran&s protest to Simon Shercliff after the UK imposed sanctions on Iran over what it called violation of
human rights during the recent protests and riots in the country, IFP reported.The Iranian official said the &arbitrary sanctions& imposed
by London are &unacceptable and worthless&, adding Tehran reserves the right to take reciprocal action.The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office announced earlier on Monday that it imposed sanctions on Iran&s morality police and two high-ranking officials for
dealing with the unrest and riots in the country.The death of 22-year-old Iranian girl Mahsa Amini at a police station on September 16 in
the capital Tehran, sparked protests and riots in several Iranian cities.In a similar move, the United States on Thursday imposed sanctions
on Iranian officials, IFP reported.Iran&s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani slammed the new round of US sanctions, saying
punitive measures are the backbone of the American human rights regulations.The post Iran summons British envoy for ‘meddling in internal
affairs& first appeared on Ariana News.
