“The Council today extended until 13 April 2020 its restrictive measures responding to serious human rights violations in Iran,” the EU claimed in its statement.
“These measures consist of: a travel ban and an asset freeze against 82 people and one entity, a ban on exports to Iran of equipment which might be used for internal repression and of equipment for monitoring telecommunications,” the statement reads.
It added “these measures were first put in place in 2011 and have been extended ever since on an annual basis'.
Earlier, London had prepared a set of especial rules to continue sanctions against Iran.
Despite the fact that the UK parliament in its 2018 law on Brexit has completely changed all regulations into domestic ones, but the UK government has prepared a special document to change EU sanctions against Iran to its internal regulations.
The EU has passed two sets of sanctions against Iran first those related to Iran nuclear program and second sanctions aiming to encourage Iran to 'obey human rights'.
According to the document, the UK sanctions are to encourage Iran to 'abandon nuclear weapons program', restrict the ability of Iran to 'develop nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons delivery systems' and to promote implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
After the JCPOA came into effect on January 16, 2016, EU suspended some of its sanctions against Iran.
The regulations in 52 pages and 78 chapters have been presented to the UK parliament on March 7 and will be officially announced after the UK withdrawal from EU.
Based on the document, ratification of the mentioned regulations have been aimed to enable UK to implement its sanctions against Iran efficiently after Brexit.