Canada's Attorney General and Justice Minister David Lametti, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth in Canada Marci Ien, and Immigration Minister Sean Fraser will provide an update Thursday on new Iranian sanctions and other steps Canada is taking to hold the regime accountable. It comes as protests sweep across the country, and the world, over the death of Mahsa Amini and others.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced earlier today that Canada has added 17 more Iranian officials and entities to its sanctions list. These individuals and entities are barred from entering Canada and doing business with most Canadian firms.

The sanctions are targeted at Iranian officials who have committed or enabled human-rights violations against women, or perpetrated disinformation, Joly said.

The list includes Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's recent longtime foreign minister, who Canadian groups had asked to be sanctioned, and Saeed Mortazavi, the prosecutor who ordered the torture of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian Canadian journalist who died in custody in 2003.

The new sanctions will also apply to Brig.-Gen. Amir Hatami, Iran's former defence minister and senior adviser to the current commander-in-chief.

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