Ottawa watching members of Iranian regime taking up residence in Canada
The Star
10-Sep-2012 (16 comments)

OTTAWA—Canada’s immigration minister says he is heeding warnings that members and allies of the Iranian regime are trying to set up residency in Canada.

At a news conference Monday, Jason Kenney told reporters officials have been told to comb through applications from Iranian nationals to ensure anyone deemed allied with or part of the Iranian government — declared last week a state sponsor of terrorism — is barred from entering Canada.

“Many in the Persian community in Canada have been concerned that people who have been close to or members of the regime and their relatives, they believe, have in too many cases been able to establish residency in Canada and we want to ensure that people who may be inadmissible, that is to say those who perhaps are associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Al Quds force, the Basij, or senior members of the regime are not admissible to Canada under s. 34-36 of the Immigration Refugee Protection Act,” Kenney said.

The law bars anyone who has engaged in terrorism, spying, war crimes, human rights violations, criminality or who is deemed a danger to the security of Canada.

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Roozbeh_Gilani

Blame Islamist regime for all this.

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:05 AM PDT

I am sure that the vast majority of iranians in canada are not Islamist regime mozdoors. In fact, judging by the comments on this site, there is only one islamist Mozdoor in canada with  lots of user ID's, extremely big mouth and lots of time on his hand, who was refused love and affection as a child by the half Bahai/half Jew boyfriend of his mother!.

Why cant the canadian government find this mozdoor, kick his rear end  all the way back to Gazza strip so his Sunni brothers take care of his tender shiat you now what?  

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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nojanthegreat

Hi dr Mohandas I am

by nojanthegreat on Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:51 PM PDT

Hi dr Mohandas

I am sorry that I did not make my point clear . Yes this is true that Iranian do have a problem obtaining visa to USA and now Canada as well in their homeland , what I meant was the officials in IRI will find other channels or simply do not seek to have US visas.

Regarding the financial gain ,that have come to many Iranian families through real estate or black market deals or simply illegal trafficking of merchandise ( read it IMPORT OUT PORT ) , I need to say that many deals in this case were rigged . Iranian simply do not pay taxes to the level that is being paid in EU or USA . Since property taxes are not a problem ,they hold on to their lands and the great bubble or rise of real estate in Iran have make many Iranian rich . There were two era in recent history that Iranian purchasing power raised to high levels . Once in pervious regime under his majesty shahan shah , and another was in first years of ahmadinejads presidency . People could simply sale their house or land and move to USA or EU countries as well as Canada. Many Iranian young adult have been immigrating to east Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia for many reasons..

I thinks its not correct to thing that if the person has a facial hair or scarf ,he is working for IRI or is part of mafia .it is simply not correct and wise . Many Iranian who live in Iran or aboard are religious or conservative , I know a lot of grandmas who are coming to USA and still wear their scarf or Rosaries . Are they working for IRI too ? Certainly not. It is good to learn that we are nation of laws and rules and we can not brand people or found them guilty with due process.

Yes there are many Iranian who cut corners inside and outside of Iran. If you ask many successful Iranian businessman about what he does he will say he is in import or outpost business which simply means he illegally traffic merchandise to Iran or ship them out of Iran . There is no doubt that many Iranian are earning their lively hood illegally or at least immorally , but that does not mean they are from IRI .

Many Jewish Iranian are in antique business , they out port great amount of antique out side of Iran in last 50 ,60 years, can we say all Iranian Jewish who live in Beverley hills or new York are Israeli spies or antique thieves ?

I can see that many innocent Iranian get caught up in this new policies . I believe no matter what policies or regime is in power in Iran we need to support our interests and don’t get played by foreign governments .


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Souri

فرامرز

Souri
Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:46 AM PDT

بابا، من فقط میگم (و همیشه هم گفتم)که شایعه پردازی نکنید. واقعیات رو از اونچه که هست بدتر و بیشتر نشون ندید. همین.

والا می‌افتیم تو همون هچلی که ۳۴ سال پیش افتادیم.

وظیفه ما‌ها اینجا، انتشار وقایع و اخبار، و همچنین روایت و قضاوت شخصی‌ خودمون هست.

اگر بگی‌ : من (فرامرز) فکر می‌کنم که شاید دولت ایران، قصد داشته دستور قتل خاوری رو بده، من فقط میگم که این با منطق تطبیق نمیکنه.

ولی‌
شما اینجا داری اینو به صورت یک خبر موثق، از طرف دولت کانادا، منتشر
میکنی‌. میگی‌ که : دولت کانادا به این علت سفارت ایران رو بست که.....

خوب میگم، زیاد شلوغش نکن دیگه.

اون
هموطن هایی هم که  میان اینجا از خطر جنگ صحبت می‌کنن، فقط دارن هشدار
میدان که عواقب جنگ رو (اگر جنگی بشه) برای اشخاصی‌ که خواهان حمله نظامی
به ایران هستن، توضیح بدن. اما شایعه پراکنی نمیکنند. والا مشمول همین
اخطار من خواهند شد.


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Souri

It is true.....

by Souri on Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:34 AM PDT

We the Iranians-Canadians always hear about the IRI people who come here with a lots of money. They come here with theit family and seek residency in Canada. This phenomena has been growing since a few years (I'd say maybe since 2005/2006).

They mostly choose Toronto and Vancouver to stay. Last year, I heard of a bearded Iranian man, with ugly old clothes, walking into a bank in Vancouver to open an account with 100, 000 dollars, cash!

He has been captured right away..

Also heard of a cerain Mr Larijani, being captured at the airport,  who was trying to enter Canada with a lot of cash.

The Iranians community in Canada, has been against this kind of immigration and always made objection against this, to the government of Canada.
I' m glad that they are now taking care of the matter.


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Faramarz

Wait a minute Souri!

by Faramarz on Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:20 AM PDT

 

 

Me, adding fuel to the fire!

So if some Melli-Maz'habi or NIACi character comes on this and talks about an imminent war, the disintegration of Iran and how the sanctions have led to children dying and puppies and kittens crying, and how Natanz is so close to Esfahan, you wouldn't call that war-mongering and adding fuel to the fire!

But when I say that a terror regime that has a track record of terror and assassinations inside and outside of Iran is trying to flex its little muscle after the unsuccessful attempts in 6-7 countries recently, then I am adding fuel to the fire!

Speaking of Natanz being so close to Esfahan, I remember when Reagan wanted to scare Americans from the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he asked, "Do you realize that it's less than a 1,000 miles from Managua to Dallas?"


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Dr. Mohandes

Vvaatt The heck!!

by Dr. Mohandes on Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:03 AM PDT

Souri jan

How did you like that spy/mafia talk with faramaz? he sounds like a professional, like someone who has been there and done that and seen it all and done them...or it all and now he is smoking a cuban and sipping brandy and says:

yeah...let me tell you something sweety...it is rough out there. wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

Noujan

Why are you mixing it all up?

Who has "dealt" with the US embassy closure? are you calling the misery of having to travel abroad to get visa actually dealing with this issue? it is a burden, it is a problem all on its own. 

I guess you don't or can't see or read between the lines. What makes you so certain that all of those who have come to some huge sums of money, that have enabled them to make some major investments in canada or elsewhere for that matter, were not guilty of having any direct or indirect connections to iri? Could it that simple and black and white? All of them poured big money into the canadian market, so it is simply because they have worked hard for it!! 

Yes i know it is very sad that we are being forced to enrich other countries' economy, perhaps you should write a long and hard-hitting letter and take this issue up with the officials in iran, as to why they are creating an environment where all iranians have no choice but to suffer and get humiliated all over the world and at home.


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Souri

I don't worry Faramarz jon

by Souri on Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:46 AM PDT

You watch too much movies :)

All you said, are the pure speculation, imagined by yourself. But you should not post this as a serious comment under such news, at the site.

And believe me, I never worry about myself. Many innocent people died in such day, 9 years ago. That could happen to me!

I deplore all tragedies, whether they are caused by the nature or by men.
But seriously, let not add the fuel to the fire. 


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Faramarz

Souri

by Faramarz on Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:32 AM PDT

 

 

If you look into the Mafia behavior, since the Regime is a full-blown Mafia, there are two things that the Mob does not tolerate; first, one of their own ripping them off (which is the case with Mr. Khavari), and second, if one of them ratting them out to the police.

In either case, the guy either gets protection/relocation/face lift from the Fed's or has to look over his shoulder all the time. 

But I don't think there is much Regime activity in Montreal because of the language barrier! So don't worry.


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nojanthegreat

Just WOW,

by nojanthegreat on Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:29 AM PDT

This is very interesting news. Canadian authority and their friends next door have failed in counterterrorist effort in past 10 years and they cannot deal with real terrorist from Arab peninsula. They are now trying these witch-hunt Iranian citizens in Canada and pretty soon in USA. I wonder how many spies’ has been captured in last 30 years In Canada or USA who were of Iranian citizenship. Is there any true evidence of IRI spying in Canadian border? Are there any motives for such a crime? I do not things so. Canada has been destination of a great majority of Iranians in past few decades. I have family members who immigrated to Canada in last 10 years alone. Great majority of immigrant to Canada are people who are looking for better economic and social life, not political one. in past few years a great number of Iranian of middle class and people who work in Bazaar scene have come to Canada to invest their money .they may look like the IRI type as some ignorant put it in this page, but they are ordinary Iranian who do come to some money in recent years from real estate or any other way. They may even use to work with the government of Iran so does another 10 million Iranians. So what’s next we going to stop Iranian from immigrating to EU or USA? How bigot and stupid we really are? Why we are doing this to ourselves? If we are blaming IRI for our political situation in Iran, why we are creating the same atmosphere here in USA or Canada? We are the only nation who will try our best to damage ourselves. There are many Chinese and Russian spy living among us, heck they are many Israeli spy who get caught in USA or Canada, have the governments of this two nations closed their embassies in this three major countries? No they did not. Closure of Canadian embassy hurt Iranian who likes to immigrate to Canada, it does not hurt Iranian government it may embrace them for weeks or month but everyone forget about it pretty soon. Iran has deal with closing off USA embassy for last 34 years. Economic dealing has ended with USA and most of globe thanks to recent embargoes, so what is the different? Canada was moving against Iranian interest for years now. I just feel bad for those Iranian families and young people who cannot access Canadian embassy and need to go to Dubai and turkey in order to receive visa. We just going to help UAE and Turkey’s economies for years to come please for sake of mother land stop being close minded and think things through. No matter how bad things are in home we need to support our interest overseas, not helping other nations to hurt us in anyway.

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nojanthegreat

Just WOW,

by nojanthegreat on Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:29 AM PDT

This is very interesting news. Canadian authority and their friends next door have failed in counterterrorist effort in past 10 years and they cannot deal with real terrorist from Arab peninsula. They are now trying these witch-hunt Iranian citizens in Canada and pretty soon in USA. I wonder how many spies’ has been captured in last 30 years In Canada or USA who were of Iranian citizenship. Is there any true evidence of IRI spying in Canadian border? Are there any motives for such a crime? I do not things so. Canada has been destination of a great majority of Iranians in past few decades. I have family members who immigrated to Canada in last 10 years alone. Great majority of immigrant to Canada are people who are looking for better economic and social life, not political one. in past few years a great number of Iranian of middle class and people who work in Bazaar scene have come to Canada to invest their money .they may look like the IRI type as some ignorant put it in this page, but they are ordinary Iranian who do come to some money in recent years from real estate or any other way. They may even use to work with the government of Iran so does another 10 million Iranians. So what’s next we going to stop Iranian from immigrating to EU or USA? How bigot and stupid we really are? Why we are doing this to ourselves? If we are blaming IRI for our political situation in Iran, why we are creating the same atmosphere here in USA or Canada? We are the only nation who will try our best to damage ourselves. There are many Chinese and Russian spy living among us, heck they are many Israeli spy who get caught in USA or Canada, have the governments of this two nations closed their embassies in this three major countries? No they did not. Closure of Canadian embassy hurt Iranian who likes to immigrate to Canada, it does not hurt Iranian government it may embrace them for weeks or month but everyone forget about it pretty soon. Iran has deal with closing off USA embassy for last 34 years. Economic dealing has ended with USA and most of globe thanks to recent embargoes, so what is the different? Canada was moving against Iranian interest for years now. I just feel bad for those Iranian families and young people who cannot access Canadian embassy and need to go to Dubai and turkey in order to receive visa. We just going to help UAE and Turkey’s economies for years to come please for sake of mother land stop being close minded and think things through. No matter how bad things are in home we need to support our interest overseas, not helping other nations to hurt us in anyway.

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Souri

Faramarz, you are too funny!

by Souri on Tue Sep 11, 2012 09:53 AM PDT

Regime is hiring people to kill Khavari?!!!! LOL,

Did you make it by yourself? Or you got help from the outside to make up his funny story?

Why would regime want to kill Khavari? He is one of them!

What is the danger of "live" Khavari  for the regime?

It seems that you love rumors!!!

It is not the first time that you are trying to force your ideas, by spreading rumors!!!

At least try to make them believable. Kind of logical!


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Faramarz

Any Iranian-Canadian Bloggers Missing?

by Faramarz on Tue Sep 11, 2012 09:47 AM PDT

 

It will be interesting to see which one of the Cyber Basiji, Regime-friendly bloggers on this site will be out of action in the near future, either due to the Regime's embassy closure or the Canadian Police action.

Also, it appears what prompted Canada to take the strong action was Regime's recruitment activities in Canada to hire assassins to take care of Mr. Khavari who left Iran with billions and is not planning to return any time soon!

Regime change for the sake of Mr. Khavari's return to Iran.

The man is rumored to be yearning for a new, young bride and a trip to Shomal!


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Azarbanoo

MG, Great initiative & advice

by Azarbanoo on Tue Sep 11, 2012 09:13 AM PDT

GOOD lack.  Soon or late we must Track the assets of these bastard islamists of IRR/IRI.


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MaryamJoon

"Baha'i & Israeli Lobbies' Desperation"

by MaryamJoon on Tue Sep 11, 2012 04:41 AM PDT

... would be a good title for this article. 

My reaction to the story is: LOL ! 


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azadi5

Great idea in theory but ...

by azadi5 on Mon Sep 10, 2012 09:36 PM PDT

How are they actually going to identify the good from the bad applicants and immigrants who are already here? Sure there are some of the IRI spies among the Iranian population in Canada, especially in Toronto and Vancouver, I see women wearing hijab, men wearing cloths which seem they found out of a garbage can, they have signs of IRI all over them. But I hope whatever method the Canadian government chooses to use doesn't end up harassing the good and hard working iranian population residing in Canada. Maybe the best way is to just call the police when we spot these people. I think it's really up to us to root out these people from our community,


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mahmoudghaffari

Great idea

by mahmoudghaffari on Mon Sep 10, 2012 05:31 PM PDT

we should also setup a website ala simon wiesenthal center and track the assets and movements of their wealth down to their children, next of kin and so forth.  i am willing to create and host this website on my servers is anyone is willing to help with this project. contact me at mahmoud@ghaffaris.com so we can start this


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