Britain on Monday announced new sanctions against Iran, freezing the assets of its air and shipping carriers.

The British chargé d'affaires in Tehran was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry to protest the recent sanctions imposed by the UK government against three Iranian individuals and one entity.

"The confrontational and sanction policy will be met with Iran's proportional response," Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told his Belgian counterpart Hadja Lahbib during a telephone conversation on Monday. Earlier in the day, the European Union announced that it was imposing restrictive measures on additional eight individuals ...

n yet another hostile move against Iran, Britain has imposed sanctions on more senior officials of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), including those who it claimed were responsible for managing the elite force's financial investments. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)saidon Monday that it has imposed sanctions ...