Tehran is a number one state-sponsor of terrorism, carried out via well-funded proxies like Hamas
It’s been inexplicable — and inexcusable — for a while now that Canada doesn’t impose harsher sanctions on the Islamic regime in Iran, or classify the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group beneath the Felony Code. However within the wake of Hamas’s brutally horrific terrorist assault on Israel, the federal Liberals can now not keep away from doing the best factor.
They need to have taken a tougher line simply over a 12 months in the past, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in custody after being arrested by the Islamic regime’s morality police for allegedly carrying her headband too loosely, violating the federal government’s puritanical gown code. Her household says she was tortured, crushed and killed, and allege they have been in flip threatened and detained by the regime for talking out.
The protests that adopted have been met with brute pressure by authorities, with no less than 500 protesters killed and 20,000 detained sooner or later. Nonetheless, Iranian girls bravely tore off their headscarves within the streets of Tehran for months on finish. Chants of “Girl, Life, Freedom” have been heard world wide in assist of the motion, and but Canada’s self-proclaimed feminist authorities by no means introduced itself to comply with within the footsteps of peer nations and again up lofty rhetoric with swift, unwavering motion.
These factions — which don’t function “in resistance” to something, however in self-described pursuit of eradicating not solely Israelis, however all Jews — simply perpetrated one of the crucial sadistic terror assaults in trendy historical past. Competition-goers gunned down. Infants beheaded. Girls gang raped among the many our bodies of their lifeless mates and paraded via the streets. Total households burned of their houses; kids blown aside by assault rifles.
Furthermore, Palestinians themselves within the Gaza Strip, half of whom are beneath the age of 18, additionally endure from Hamas’s oppression and cruelty funded by the IRGC. They’ll absolutely solely endure extra within the days and weeks to come back.
Notably, Iranians in Canada, a lot of whom have firsthand expertise with the Islamic regime’s brutality, have been among the many most vocal supporters of Israel at rallies throughout the nation. It’s additionally essential to underscore the excellence between Iran’s totalitarian authorities and its folks.
Whereas Trudeau’s Liberals have deemed IRGC members inadmissible to Canada as a consequence of their terrorist actions, they steadfastly refuse to designate the IRGC as a terrorist group beneath the Felony Code, despite the fact that the U.S. already does so and the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to take action earlier this 12 months. This even though, in 2018, Liberals backed a Conservative movement to listing the IRGC as a terrorist entity beneath the code.
CPC Chief Pierre Poilievre is asking on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lastly comply with via, saying, “Conservatives are calling for the Trudeau authorities to lastly ban the IRGC in order that Iran can now not use our nation to hold out its evil works.”
Liberals shouldn’t let partisanship cease them from doing what even they, no less than in principle, seem to know is true. Ramp up sanctions, truly implement them, and criminalize the IRGC.
Finally, with out improved enforcement, any new bulletins are empty lip service.
It’s time to finish this nationwide embarrassment and make it clear that Canada stands behind Iranians, Israelis, Palestinians and everybody else world wide terrorized by the Islamic regime of Iran and its proxies.
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