Following nationwide protests in the Islamic Republic following Mahsa Amini's death while in the care of the unit's morality police, Iran has denounced Britain's move to censure the organisation.
On September 16, days after the 22-year-old was detained by Tehran's morality police for allegedly breaking Iran's strict dress code for women, fatal riots broke out.
In a statement on Monday, Britain said it was imposing sanctions on Iran's police chief, the head of the Basij militia affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the "morality police in its whole."
In response, Iran declared that it had summoned the British ambassador to Tehran later that day and referred to the recently implemented sanctions as "baseless."
It informed the envoy of Tehran’s “strong protest to London for interfering in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, the statement said.
Iran says dozens of people have been killed in the protests triggered by Amini’s death, including 18 security personnel, and hundreds have been arrested at what it calls “riots”.