82Since those measures proved inadequate to stop or to slow down the nuclear programme implemented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the European Council decided, in its conclusions of 9 December 2011, to extend the scope of restrictive measures taken by the European Union, as stated in recital 6 of Decision 2012/35. In point 3 of its conclusions on Iran of 23 January 2012, the Council of the European Union stressed that the restrictive measures adopted that day were aimed at affecting the funding of Iran’s nuclear programme by the Iranian regime and not aimed at the Iranian people.
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