‘Far worse than you can imagine’: How Iran’s regime has ‘spread its tentacles’ in Canada

When Hamed Esmaeilion he first arrived in 2010 with his wife Parisa and daughter Reera, Esmaeilion thought he had come to the safest country in the world.

“But it’s not,” he says.

His wife and daughter were among 176 people killed, including 55 Canadian citizens, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on Jan. 8, 2020.

Soon, the watchful eyes of the regime focused on him in Canada. He started to get threats on social media, and even more chilling, multiple phone calls from the same person.

“The last conversation I had with that guy, he was like, let’s talk about the last moments of your wife and your daughter.”

He says the worst part is, he was told police resources are stretched too thin to protect him.

(The article goes on to list other Iranians being targeted in Canada.)

There are 77 groups on Canada’s terrorist list, but Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not one of them. The United States, meanwhile, declared the IRGC a terrorist organization in 2019.

“It’s a terrorist organization,” he says. “It’s good that people know about that more and more. That’s great. But if it’s a terrorist organization, where’s the action? Why are they not on the terrorist list?” |Read more https://globalnews.ca/news/10076891/iran-dissidents-threats-canada/| globalnews.ca/news/10076891/ir…

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A new bill wants to criminalize ‘coercive’ conduct in Canada. What is it?

Controlling or coercive behaviour between partners is being explored as a criminal offence in Canada amid growing conversations and awareness of domestic abuse.

A private member’s bill, C-332, brought forward by New Democrat MP Laurel Collins reached its second reading in the House of Commons Thursday.

Both the Liberals and Conservatives have said they would support this bill that seeks to amend the Criminal Code, criminalizing conduct that has a “significant impact” on a person, including a fear of violence, a decline in their physical or mental health or a substantial adverse effect on their day-to-day activities.

“Coercive control is an insidious and often ignored element of intimate partner violence,” said Collins at a news conference in Ottawa Thursday.

“It is a way in which partners are controlled or are prevented from leaving,” she said, adding that “coercive control disproportionately impacts women.”

But Canada’s Divorce Act defines it under family violence as a “pattern of abusive behaviour people use to control or dominate another family member”.

Examples of such behaviour include choosing a partner’s clothing, controlling their money, or not letting them work or see friends, according to the Department of Justice.

The bill, which still has to pass through the House of Commons and the Senate before it can become law, is modelled after similar laws in the United Kingdom. |Read more https://globalnews.ca/news/10084970/domestic-abuse-coercive-control-bill/| globalnews.ca/news/10084970/do…

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