The European Council on Tuesday added eight Iranian nationals and the Tehran-linked Zindashti Network to its human-rights sanctions list, citing assassinations, kidnappings and other acts of transnational repression carried out on European soil. The decision was approved at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on 15 July. Those targeted include Turkish-based crime boss Naji Sharifi Zindashti and five alleged accomplices—Abdelwahab Kokak, Ali Esfanjani, Ali Kokak, Akram Oztunc and Nihad Asan—whom the EU says helped murder dissidents such as journalist Masoud Molavi. The bloc also blacklisted Mohammad Ansari, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force Unit 840, and intelligence officer Reza Hamidi Ravari for ordering or directing overseas plots. All nine listings face an immediate asset freeze within the EU and a ban on entering member states; Europeans are barred from providing them with funds or economic resources. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the move sends a clear signal that actors who threaten European security "will face consequences." With the new designations, more than 100 Iranian individuals and entities are now subject to EU restrictive measures.