Canada recently listed the military of a country of 90 million people a “terrorist” organization. Even though the move assists Israel’s holocaust in Gaza, there’s been little criticism of the decision.
Three weeks ago, the Canadian government labeled the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a designated terrorist organization. Ottawa joined Washington in designating the 100,000-member elite Iranian military force as such.
The Iranian government condemned Canada’s move. According to that country’s foreign minister, Ottawa’s decision “took place in alliance with terrorists and Zionists.”
Additionally, Iran’s envoy to the UN sent a letter to the Secretary-General and UN Security Council labeling Ottawa’s move “a blatant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.”
When foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly made the announcement Liberal MP Judy Sgro stood by her side. Sgro is a high-profile supporter of the violent, cult-like, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which Canada previously listed as a terrorist organization. Last year Sgro called MEK leader Maryam Rajavi’s 10–point plan a “model for the world”.
At the recent “Free Iran World Summit 2024”, Sgro crowed about convincing the government to list the IRGC. “I’m amazingly happy”, she told the crowd in Paris, “that it was my government that actually two weeks ago labeled the IRGC as a terrorist organization, something that many of us have been working on for a very long time. And again, now we have the European Union and we have the UK. They have to be the next two [jurisdictions to label the IRGC as a terrorist organization].”
During the Iran-Iraq war the MEK fought with Saddam Hussein’s forces. In the mid 1980s Iraq armed and equipped a 7,000 strong MEK force. According to US government sources, the MEK has teamed up with Israel to assassinate Iranians. In 2012, NBC News reported that the MEK was “financed, trained, and armed by Israel’s secret service” to assassinate Iranian scientists. The MEK killed 12,000 Iranians in terrorist attacks between 1979 to 2016 alone. (more...)
Ottawa’s roundabout way of enabling Israel’s genocide
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