News - Middle East: The European Union (EU) is reportedly planning to impose sanctions on dozens of Iranian individuals amid its efforts to blacklist Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist organization,” despite Tehran’s stern warning of the consequences of such a hostile measure.

Citing two European diplomats, Reuters said on Thursday the European bloc was to add 37 names to its sanctions list on Monday.
"We will adopt the fourth package of sanctions against Iran on Monday," the officials said.

The 27-nation bloc has been slapping sanctions against Iran over, what it calls, the country's confrontation against the foreign-backed violence and riots that erupted across the Islamic Republic in September after the tragic death in police custody of a young Iranian woman, named Mahsa Amini.

The unfortunate incident was immediately picked up by Western-based media outlets and officials, who -- without providing any convincing evidence -- started claiming that the woman had been "murdered" by police forces.

Iran immediately released the CCTV footage showing the young woman fainting at a police station and being subsequently transferred to a hospital. In the meantime, Iranian authorities conducted an investigation into the incident, concluding that Amini’s death had been caused by an illness, rather than alleged bodily harm.

Last month, Iran's Interior Ministry said the country's enemies had been using the opportunity of Amini's case to wage a hybrid war against the Islamic Republic to weaken its national solidarity and hinder the country's progress.