Toronto (Canada), October 7 (EFE).- Canada has permanently banned the entry into the country this Friday of thousands of Iranian leaders and officials, including members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, in response to Tehran’s crackdown on women’s protests.

The sanctions were announced today by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, at a press conference during which they assured that those sanctioned will never be able to travel to Canada .

To bar the entry of thousands of Iranian officials, Canada will include the Tehran regime, and in particular the Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a refugee protection law that Ottawa has used in the past in cases of war crimes and genocide.

The measures adopted today are the same ones that Canada used to penalize those responsible for and implicated in war crimes in Bosnia or genocide in Rwanda.

The sanctions will prevent some 10,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers and senior officials from traveling to Canada, doing business with Canadian entities or individuals, or owning Canadian assets.

In addition, Canada will extend its economic sanctions against Iran.

Trudeau said these measures will “raise the bar internationally” for holding Iran accountable for human rights abuses in the country.

For his part, Freeland said the sanctions involve a “formal recognition” that the Iranian regime is “repressive, theocratic and misogynistic.”

On October 3, Canada has already imposed a new round of economic sanctions against Iran for the violent suppression of women’s protests in the country and the actions of the regime’s morale police which caused the death of young Mahsa Amini. for having worn the evil veil.

The sanctions affected 25 people, including Mohammed-Hossein Bagheri, General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, Director of Morale Police, and Esmail Khatib, Minister of Intelligence and Security.

But Canada’s main opposition party, the Conservative Party, accused Trudeau that sanctions against Iran’s morale police were not enough and urged the government to do more.

(c) EFE Agency