Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh speaks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Tehran, Iran on October 5, 2020. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Iran's foreign ministry said Monday it is suspending cooperation with the European Union in various fields following the bloc's decision to blacklist several Iranian security officials over a 2019 protest crackdown.
Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh "strongly condemned" the sanctions and said Iran is "suspending all human rights talks and cooperation resulting from these talks with the EU, especially in (the fields of) terrorism, drugs and refugees".