An investigation by the FRANCE 24 Observers has provoked a furious reaction from Iranians in Iran and around the world. In an article published November 25, the Observers team published photographs showing 13 shotgun cartridges bearing the logos of Cheddite, a French-Italian ammunition manufacturer, that had been recovered from protests in Iran. The presence of EU-made ammunition in Iran is an apparent violation of a 2011 EU sanction banning the "export, directly or indirectly, [of] equipment which might be used for internal repression" in Iran.
The article was massively shared by Iranians on Twitter, Telegram and other social networks. One poster wrote: "Hundreds of Iranians have been blinded by shotgun pellets made by a Franco-Italian company. What does this company doing business with the mullahs’ regime have to say about it?"
