Iran's clerical rulers faced mounting international pressure on Monday over their crackdown on protests, with the European Union imposing additional sanctions on the Islamic Republic and France's president characterising the unrest as a revolution.
The nationwide protests, ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in morality police custody on Sept. 16 after her arrest for "inappropriate attire", have turned into a legitimacy crisis for the clerical establishment that took power over four decades ago.
