Senior Iranian official caught in Toronto
globalnews.caMahsa Amini for showing her hair in public.Her death became a rallying cry against the repression of women under Iran’s clerical regime.Canada responded by designating Iran’s government a regime engaged in “terrorism and systematic and gross human rights violations.”The policy effectively barred tens of thousands of Iranian officials and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members from entering Canada.The Refugee Board said the Iranian national immigration enforcement officers referred for inadmissibility hearings was born on Jan. 16, 1981.No further information has been released about him.
The CBSA declined to comment on his case, citing privacy laws.An Iranian official by that same name was appointed Iran’s Deputy Minister of Interior in 2016. Iranian websites reported he was born on Jan.
16, 1981.The Interior Ministry is in charge of Iran’s domestic security and police agencies, which have implicated in widespread human rights abuses.Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi is a former general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and has been sanctioned by Canada, the U.S. and Europe.The U.S.
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