What Does the Conservative Government Intend to Do
The Iranophobia Project
Ali Mokhtari
A little while ago, the Canadian media was full of stories quoted from the RCMP about two people arrested because they intended to sabotage the Canadian Railway System. It may not seem weird at first, because we are used to hearing a lot of stories about terrorism and terrorists who kill and sabotage with religious motives. However, this time, the story went out of its way to make a link between these two people and Al-Qaida in Iran. A few days later, when the names were disclosed, it turned out they were not Iranian. Further news confirmed that one of them was from Tunisia and the other one from Palestine, who — despite having a criminal history in the country he resided in, i.e. UAE, managed to get permanent residency in Canada. The RCMP could not answer who the Al-Qaida agents in Iran purportedly are, how this relationship and link have been established, or any of tens of more questions in this regard, which was exactly why some journalists thought that this allegation was doubtful.
The attempts of the Canadian conservative government to make a link between Iran and terrorist actions were followed by another allegation claiming that some Iranians go to Canada with vicious intentions, expressing concerns in this regard. Who these people are or how we could discover their vicious intentions even before they had the chance to do anything was another question the RCMP cannot answer. ادامه ی نوشته
