‘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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