Another senior member of Iran’s regime caught in Canada, CBSA says

Another elder subordinate of the Iranian authorities has been recovered surviving successful Canada, bringing the fig to 16, according to migration officials.

The Canada Border Services Agency besides said it had sent 1 much of the alleged officials to the Immigration and Refugee Board for a deportation hearing.

Seven deportation hearings are present underway against suspected elder Iranian authorities members, successful summation to 2 that person already resulted successful deportation orders.

The updated figures are arsenic of Oct. 15.

The Canadian authorities volition not place the authorities members whose cases are inactive ongoing.

“As a matter of practice, the IRB does not supply accusation connected immoderate cases that are not public,” the Refugee Board said successful a connection to Global News.

The cases are the effect of a argumentation adopted successful November 2022 that banned high-ranking Iranian authorities officials from Canada.

The measures were imposed successful effect to the decease of Mahsa Amini, who was detained and killed by Iran’s morality constabulary for showing her hairsbreadth successful public.

The sidesplitting acceptable disconnected demonstrations that were brutally suppressed by the clerical-run authorities of Supreme Leader Ali Khomenei.

Canada responded by designating the Iranian authorities a authorities engaged successful “terrorism and systematic and gross quality rights violations.”

The argumentation efficaciously barred tens of thousands of Iranian officials and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members from Canada.

The Iranian authorities and IRGC are starring a alleged “axis of resistance” that has been promoting unit and instability successful the Middle East.

Iran is the main sponsor of Hamas, which acceptable disconnected a determination struggle by attacking Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023. Tehran besides backmost Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis.

The Islamic Republic has besides been linked to respective caller plots to assassinate dissidents and critics, among them erstwhile Liberal MP Irwin Cotler.

Global News revealed that deportation orders were issued this twelvemonth against 2 officials, Majid Iranmanesh and Sayed Salman Samani.

But lone 1 of them has really been deported truthful acold and the remaining cases person proceeded successful secrecy, aft the IRB banned the property from the hearings.

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Meanwhile, an Iranian national convicted of helping Tehran evade sanctions appeared Wednesday earlier the IRB, wherever helium is undergoing deportation proceedings.

Amin Yousefijam, besides known arsenic Amen Cohen, was convicted successful the U.S. of shipping delicate materials to Iran successful usurpation of sanctions.

The CBSA is present trying to deport him, alleging helium undermined Canada’s efforts to incorporate the menace posed by the Iranian regime.

Although his deportation lawsuit was expected to statesman connected Oct. 28, it was delayed erstwhile his lawyers quit, citing a “breakdown” successful the solicitor-client relationship.

At an quality this week, the IRB delayed the proceeding again until Feb. 25, successful bid to springiness Yousefijam’s caller lawyer clip to prepare.

Yousefijam contributed to “an accrued information menace towards Canada successful regards to coercion and onslaught by atomic weapons,” CBSA wrote successful its report.

His member Arash Yousefijam was besides convicted. The brothers utilized Ontario’s sanction alteration strategy to follow caller identities arsenic Ameen and Dr. Arash Cohen.

The Ontario authorities said it was looking into reforming its policies to forestall superior criminals from hiding their past identities.

Stewart.Bell@globalnews.ca