Canada to ban Iran’s IRGC leadership from entry

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London, United Kingdom on September 18, 2022. [Wiktor Szymanowicz - Anadolu Agency]

Canada on Friday said it would ban the senior leadership of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from entering the country, in a set of moves intended to punish the organisation and Tehran's leadership for the violent crackdown on protests and the downing of a plane two years ago. At a news conference yesterday, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy Chrystia Freeland announced that the IRGC will be classified under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, a measure used by Ottowa against governments and actors accused of the most serious war crimes. That act includes the banning of the top 50 per cent of IRGC leadership – which consists of over 10,000 officers and senior members – from […] Source

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