Canada Bans Iran Officials With New ‘Terrorism’, Rights Violation Designation – National

The Canadian government has designated Iran as a regime responsible for “terrorism” and systematic and gross human rights abuses, Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino announced on Monday.

The move, he said, means “unacceptable to Canada” for tens of thousands of senior members of the Iranian regime, including many members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

“The consequences will be severe,” Mendicino said of the new designation, according to a press release.

“People listed under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) are permanently barred from entering and have no safe haven in Canada. This is the strongest sanctions ever imposed on the Iranian regime. is.”

Iran’s heads of state, members of the Cabinet, ambassadors and senior diplomats are just a few of the thousands of Iranians who are now permanently barred from entering Canada as a direct result of this designation.

Senior members of the judiciary, military, intelligence services and civil servants have also all been barred from the country, and any banned persons already in Canada “may be investigated and removed,” the government said in a release. increase.

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Canada and its allies, including the United Kingdom and the United States, have steadily slapped Iran in recent months with a series of sanctions.

Iran has engaged in a brutal crackdown on protesters amid nationwide protests. The demonstrations first erupted when his 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died on September 16 after being detained by the country’s so-called moral police.

She was detained on suspicion of violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.

The protests initially focused on Iran’s obligatory headscarf, or hijab, but then turned to one of the biggest challenges to the ruling clergy since the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. changed to one.

Iranian authorities announced late last month a public trial of 1,000 people over protests that shook the country.

Mendicino said the sanctions were aimed at expressing support for women’s rights and “fighting for justice” on behalf of families who lost loved ones on Flight PS752, which was shot down in Tehran 1,000 days ago. There is

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated last month that the Iranian regime shot down the plane in an “illegal and horrific manner.”

— Using files from The Canadian Press

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