Tehran today criticized new sanctions imposed on Iran by the European Union and Britain and said it would respond, Reuters reported.

"The Islamic Republic will soon announce a list of new sanctions against individuals from the EU and England who violate human rights," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Khanani said.

The European Union announced yesterday that it is imposing sanctions against more than 30 representatives of the Iranian authorities and Iranian organizations, including divisions of the influential Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Repressions against demonstrators and other human rights violations were cited as the reason for the sanctions.

The EU is expected to impose more sanctions on Iran today for its crackdown on protests

New sanctions against Iran were also introduced by the US and Britain, indicating a worsening of the West's already complicated relationship with Tehran, Reuters notes.

The sanctions are the latest reaction to the crackdown on demonstrators who took part in protests over the death in September last year of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman of Kurdish origin who was suspected of being abused by officers of the so-called called

moral police, points out Reuters.