The European Union’s foreign ministers have agreed to expand existing sanctions on Iran’s drone and missile program, the bloc’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said Monday.
Borrell said the new sanctions enlarge "the geographical area of this framework to cover drone and missile deliveries not only to Russia” but also Iran's proxies in the region.
The sanctions will broaden the list of components blocked from being exported from the EU that are used to produce drones and missiles.
The EU’s decision comes after Iran’s recent unprecedented attack on Israel, which came after a suspected Israeli attack on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Syria earlier this month.
The US last week announced new sanctions on 16 people and two entities associated with Iran’s drone program.
