New Zealand has imposed travel bans on 40 Iranian nationals in response to Tehran’s violent crackdown of nationwide protests, according to AFP.
A senior minister on Thursday accused the Iranian regime of murdering tens of thousands of people during the demonstrations.
On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced that New Zealand has imposed travel bans on 40 Iranian officials accused of perpetrating human rights abuses.
Those officials include Iran’s ministers of interior and intelligence, the prosecutor general, and senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
“It has been horrifying to witness the brutal killing of thousands of protestors in Iran,” Peters said.
He also noted that his country has joined Australia, Britain, Canada, the European Union, and the United States, all of which have enacted similar restrictions and bans on Tehran.
In response, Iran’s embassy in Wellington rejected these measures, calling them politically motivated and “based on misinformation.”
The embassy added that Iran accused Western nations of lacking the moral standing to lecture others on human rights.
On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour criticized the embassy’s response, underscoring that the regime in Iran has killed tens of thousands of their own citizens in cold blood to keep power.
“They deserve everything they’ve got coming and they certainly won’t be escaping to here,” he added.
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