20th alleged Iran official caught in Canada as campaigns explain how they would deal with Tehran
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Twenty alleged senior members of the Iranian regime have now been found living in Canada, immigration officials confirmed amid an election debate on how best to deal with the Islamic republic.
The most recent is an Iranian citizen scheduled to go before the Immigration and Refugee Board in June after the Canada Border Services Agency accused him of having served as a top official in Tehran.
The refugee board released his name to Global News on Wednesday but later requested that it not be published because his deportation hearing was being held behind closed doors.
Reached by Global News, a Vancouver-area man by the name declined to comment. According to Iranian media, he was an official in Iran’s oil ministry. The CBSA declined to comment.
He is the latest Iranian citizen flagged for deportation since the Canadian government launched a crackdown in 2022 against alleged high-level regime members residing in the country.
Those identified by immigration enforcement authorities are being sent to the refugee board, which has been holding hearings to decide whether they should be deported.
But the cases have been held largely in secrecy and have moved slowly, with only one successful removal so far, although a few of the Iranian officials have left voluntarily.
“To know that there are people affiliated with the highest echelons of Iran’s regime walking around our streets certainly poses a danger to this country,” said Kaveh Shahrooz, a Toronto lawyer and human rights activist.
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