On April 12, 2018, the Council of Europe extended [3] sanctions against Iran for human rights violations for one additional year, until April 13, 2019. The current restrictive measures include “a travel ban and an asset freeze against 82 people and one entity” and “a ban on exports to Iran of equipment which might be used for internal repression and of equipment for monitoring telecommunications.”  These measures [4] concerning human rights violations were first put in place in 2011 and differ from the sanctions against Iran concerning targeting nuclear proliferation activities, which were initiated in 2006 and lifted in 2016 with the completion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [5].