The government should explain why it hasn’t listed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist entity
the IRGC’s Qods Force, which is responsible for extraterritorial operations, as a terrorist entity, but not the IRGC in its entirety. This latter call was echoed by the friends and family of those who were killed on Flight PS752, who marked 1,000 days on Tuesday since the plane carrying 55 Canadians and 30 permanent residents was shot down by the IRGC in January, 2020.
The debate over whether Canada should indeed list the IRGC as a terrorist entity has been going on for years. In 2018, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis put forth an oppositionto “immediately” designate the IRGC a terrorist entity, but despite the motion receiving bipartisan support, no action has been taken in the four years since.
Speaking to the crowd gathered on Parliament Hill this week to mark 1,000 days since the downing of Flight PS752, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, “We will use all the tools at our disposal to isolate and punish the brutal dictatorship,” adding that “we understand the significance of listing the IRGC [as a terrorist entity]” but did not elaborate on whether her government intends to do so.
The government may privately have many good reasons for hesitating or declining to act. When the Trump administration listed the IRGC as a terrorist organization in 2019, some military and intelligence experts warned that it could provoke retaliation against U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East, while at the same time serving as a mostlymeasure because most dealings with the IRGC were already prohibited by a network of sanctions.
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