CSIS warns that threats from Iran in Canada can increase this year, and it uses criminals to target critics

Canada’s spy agency warns that threats from Iran’s Theocratic regime can increase this year and Tehran will continue to use members of criminal gangs to focus his critics in Canada.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told The Globe this week that the research into death threats in Canada is investigating orchestrated by the Republic of Iran. And depending on developments in the middle, such threats can escalate here, CSIS warned.

The spy agency issued its warning after it turned out that two Canadian journalists who work for a Persian news exit established in London have confronted Iran threats. One was repeatedly told that they would be abducted, placed in a bag and smuggled the land if they did not stop reporting.

Lawyers who act for the news exit, Iran International, have asked experts from the United Nations to intervene with the regime urgently after death and kidnapping threats for his journalists and their families escalated in the past six weeks.

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The escalation coincided with the American attack on Iranian nuclear locations and the offensive of Israel, in which dozens of Iranian killed SEnior safety officials and nuclear scientists.

In a statement, CSIS warned that the level of threats in Canada was proposed by people who act on the Iranian regime on behalf of the Iranian regime can be influenced by the situation in the middle East.

“CSIS continues to investigate threats for the life of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given the need to protect our sources, tradecraft and methods, we cannot confirm or refuse specific research details,” said CSIS spokesperson Magali Hébert in a statement.

“CSIS assesses that Iran will continue to use complications, such as persons involved in transnational organized crime networks, when it is aimed at observed enemies living abroad, including Canada.”

“Iranian threat-related activities aimed at Canada and its allies will probably continue in 2025, and can increase, depending on the developments in the Middle East and the own perception of the Iranian regime,” it added.

An alleged conspiracy from Iran agents to kill the former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler was thwarted, the RCMP told him last year.

The lawyer and founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, who supported dissidents through Tehran, stays on the hit list of Iran and has 24-hour police protection.

Lawyers who traded for Iran International earlier this week asked five UN experts to intervene with the Iranian regime about threats for his journalists and their families, including two in Canada.

It appealed to the UN experts to take action to protect the safety of journalists in seven countries: Canada, Great Britain, the US, Sweden, Germany, Turkey and Belgium.

The appeal was submitted to five UN special rapporteurs, including Professor Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on human rights and terrorism, and Irene Khan, the special reporter of the UN on freedom of expression.

Carlos Nagore Diaz, a spokesperson for Mrs. Khan, said in an e-mail that “various UN special rapporteurs is considering taking urgent action about the renewed credible threats for life,” but all communication with the Iranian regime is currently confidential.

“The special rapporteur has consistently expressed concern about threats for reporters who work for Iran International and will continue to do so,” he said.

Last year a group of UN reporters, including Mrs. Khan and Mr Saul, wrote to leaders of the Iran regime who expressed concern about threats for journalists who work for Persian language languages abroad, including Iran International.

Founded in 2017, it has become the most viewed Persian TV TV channel in and outside Iran on satellite and online platforms. Head office in London, with agencies in 14 countries, the report is often critical of the theocratic regime of Tehran.

The letter from the reporters of May 2024 claimed that the Islamic Republic of Iran was directly, and by Proxies, threatening journalists who worked for Iran International, as well as their family members in Iran.

“We note that actions and threats of violence and other measures of intimidation and intimidation by the Iranian authorities or her attorney against people in the United Kingdom and other states can come down to violations of the sovereignty of those states,” the letter said.

It described how in March last year Iran International journalist Pouria Zeraati was stabbed by two attackers outside his house in Wimbledon, London.

Two Romanian subjects were then accused of the attack.

In her answer to the letter from the UN experts, Iran’s permanent representation to the UN, “accusations of the threats or kidnapping plans” against journalists who work for news broadcasts such as Iran International, who called it “agents”.

“For the Islamic Republic of Iran, this anti-Iranian network and its agents are terrorists, they will be treated according to the relevant laws and they will be tried in a fair court, since the case is processed against some agents of this network,” the letter said.

Adam Baillie, spokesperson for Iran International, said: “The idea that there is such a thing as a fair trial in Iran under the current regime is an absurdity.”

“The allegations about us as terrorists are ridiculous. We are journalists who do our work and we should do it from Iran himself,” he said.

“Moreover, you should not underestimate the level of threat, both in scale and nature, to journalists who work for our channel, also in Canada.”

Last week Canada joined a group of countries, including Great Britain, the US, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, to publicly condemn a growing number of threats from Iranian intelligence services on their soil.

The joint statement, published by the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Iranian intelligence services are increasingly working with international criminal organizations to focus on journalists, dissidents and others.