{"id":1700365,"date":"2022-10-17T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700365"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:18:53","slug":"hon-thaddeus-g-mccotter-canadas-increased-sanctions-on-iranian-terrorists-further-step-or-final-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hon-thaddeus-g-mccotter-canadas-increased-sanctions-on-iranian-terrorists-further-step-or-final-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter: Canada&#8217;s Increased Sanctions on Iranian Terrorists\u2013 Further Step or Final Step?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhon-thaddeus-g-mccotter-canadas-increased-sanctions-on-iranian-terrorists-further-step-or-final-step%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700365&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>        Our border just became more secure. No, not that one. I\u2019m talking about the world\u2019s longest demilitarized land boundary between two nations \u2013 our northern border with Canada, which has been relatively calm since about 1815.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the Trudeau government announced sanctions against our common terrorist enemy, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards. The only remaining question is whether in confronting the IRGC, this will constitute a further step or a final step.<\/p>\n<p>As related by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2022-10-07\/canada-to-ban-irans-irgc-leaders-from-entry-expand-sanctions\">Reuters in U.S. News &#038; World Report<\/a>, under its Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that targets rogue regimes accused of committing war crimes, Canada will classify the \u201ctop 50% of the IRGC leadership, more than 10,000 officers and senior members\u201d and ban them from entering the country. Further, the Canadian government will expand \u201ctargeted sanctions measures and establish a sanctions bureau\u201d against these leaders and members of the IRGC.<\/p>\n<p>Canada took these measures in the wake of the Sept. 13\u00a0death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-62998231\">Masha Amini<\/a> while in the custody of Iran\u2019s \u201cmorality police\u201d for the crime of not properly wearing her hijab, which sparked protests across that oppressed nation; and in the continuing aftermath of the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian International Airlines plane, which resulted in the deaths of 176 people, including Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The gravity of these measures is significant. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, remarked at an October 7th press conference: \u201cThis is the strongest measure we have to go after states and state entities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Canada has addressed the IRGC\u2019s malevolent acts. The Canadian government has already listed the IRGC\u2019s Qods Force, which is tasked with external operations, as a terrorist entity. Indeed, at the recent press conference, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland declared \u201cthe IRGC is a terrorist organization.\u201d\u00a0 [Fact check: True.]\u00a0 The Deputy Prime Minister has also publicly stated that the Canadian government \u201cwill use all the tools at our disposal to isolate and punish the brutal dictatorship [in Iran]\u201d and that \u201cwe understand the significance of listing the IRGC [as a terrorist entity].\u201d\u00a0 Evidently, so too does parliament, which in 2018 expressed broad support for a measure declaring the entire IRGC as such.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the rub: why won\u2019t the Trudeau government designate the IRGC in its entirety as a terrorist organization? (The U.S. has already done so.) It is a question not solely being asked by both the political opponents of the Trudeau government, but of a vast number of Canadian citizens concerned about the well-being of the oppressed Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-the-government-should-explain-why-it-hasnt-listed-irans-revolutionary\/\">The Globe and Mail<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/RobynUrback\">Robyn Urback<\/a> asked the Trudeau government, in lieu of action, for at least an explanation for its inaction on naming the entire IRGC as a terrorist organization. She offered a few possible explanations to assist the Trudeau government in providing an answer:<br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe 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<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our border just became more secure. No, not that one. I\u2019m talking about the world\u2019s longest demilitarized land boundary between two nations \u2013 our northern border with Canada, which has been relatively calm since about 1815. More recently, the Trudeau government announced sanctions against our common terrorist enemy, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards. 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