Iran diaspora decry Montreal honour for urologist who shunned COVID vaccines
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Physicians are decrying a Montreal organization's plan to honour a Tehran physician who they accuse of spreading COVID disinformation and upholding the regime's sexist attitudes.
A group of Canadian physicians with roots in Iran are decrying a Montreal-based organization’s plan to honour a Tehran physician who they accuse of spreading COVID-19 disinformation and upholding the regime’s sexist attitudes.
The Société Internationale d’Urologie has invited Dr. Nasser Simforoosh to visit Montreal and to receive a distinguished service award on Nov. 10.
“He is the epitome of everything that Canada does not stand for,” said Dr. Mahyar Etminan, an ophthalmological epidemiologist at the University of British Columbia.
Simforoosh, who studied in the United States, leads the urology department at the Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Centre in Tehran, a major teaching and research hospital.
In early 2021, Simforoosh signed an open letter urging the Iranian regime to ban the import of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, arguing that Western technology was substandard, alleging the U.S. has bad motives for providing the shots and echoing disproven claims about gene editing.
The regime banned the shots a short time later, a move the Canadian physicians argue has contributed to Iran’s significant COVID-19 death rates.
Etminan said the letter Simforoosh signed amounts to “preventing a life-saving therapy at a time when people were dying, including a lot of his own colleagues in Iran.”
Meanwhile, those who studied under Simforoosh said he went out of his way to segregate patient interactions by gender.
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