Canada to designate Iranian regime as serial human rights violator: ministers
This funding will see the addition of up to 30 new RCMP members and public servants who will track the assets of those who are sanctioned and seize them, according to Mendicino.“Most importantly, this investment will give Canada the tools it needs to enforce all of the sanctions we have introduced against Iran,” he said.
“Today and every day we hold in our hearts the 55 Canadians, 33 permanent residents and 88 other foreign nationals who were brutally murdered when Flight PS752 was shot out of the sky over two years ago.
On Thursday it was announced by a rights group that seven people were killed during protests in Kurdish regions of Iran, where Amini was from, as authorities continue to pursue a deadly crackdown on nationwide demonstrations sparked by her death.
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