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Ottawa, Canada – While Iran’s retaliation against Israel has ended, the Canadian government department responsible for national security is monitoring the “remaining effects of the evolving situation in the Middle East,” a Canadian spokesman for Public Security Canada said.
“Canadian law enforcement agencies remain on alert,” Noémie Allard said in a statement to Fox News Digital. She noted that the current level of national terrorism threat is “medium”, which means that it is a realistic possibility that violent extremist attacks are currently. ”
Meanwhile, Irwin Cotler, an attacker of the Iranian regime on the Iranian regime, told Fox News in an interview that the Islamic Republic is on its “massive family oppression” campaign against its rivals at home and may launch “multinational corporations suppression” opponents against opponents.
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Opponents of the Iranian regime in Toronto, Canada held a pro-Israeli rally after the terrorist group Hamas attacked the Jewish state. (Contributed by Emily Schafer)
Cotler is a long-time critic of the Iranian clerk regime, police protection of the RCMP since 2023 Canadian intelligence officials determined the death threat to him by Iran.
“Iranian diaspora, human rights defenders, journalists, Jews and Israelis are all potential targets,” Kotler told Fox News numbers in an interview. “This is a time when we need to be vigilant.”
He noted that three political prisoners were charged with espionage against Israel this week and another 700 Iranians were arrested on charges of accusing them of working with Israel during a 12-day war with Israel.
Montreal-born Cotler, an 85-year-old international human rights lawyer who established the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights 10 years ago, is trying to secure the release of Ahmadreza Djalali – a Swedish Iranian physical accused of being an Israeli spy, who had been imprisoned for nine years at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison in Tehran until this week when he was moved to an undisclosed location.He faces what Kotler calls “the threat of imminent execution.”
Archives – Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards marched during the march. The IRGC was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Council. A large part of its work is to operate secretly outside Iran. (Reuters.) (Reuters)
He feared that sleeper cells were activated in Canada to target those who opposed the Iranian regime and urged the Canadian government to prioritize a separate agency to deal with external threats of repression and assassination by rogue countries such as Iran, China and Russia.
Kotler also pointed out that Iran-born Canadian human rights lawyer Kaveh Shahrooz said he was also a target of the Iranian regime, who believes the number of agents of Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in Canada is “not enough to say” and “a greater threat.”
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Fox News Digital cannot reach Shahrooz for further comment.
Kotler said Canada should also follow the leadership of the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute those who work with Iran-led sleeper cells.
Last October, the Justice Department formally accused senior IRGC official Ruhollah Bazghandi of being involved in a 2022 plot to kill Masih Alinejad, a friend of Cotler’s in New York City, to kill Iranian American dissident Masih Alinejad.
March 5, 2025, at the Peace Arch Historical Park in Brian, Washington, marking the international border between the United States and Canada. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images)
At a virtual press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said her administration was “very concerned” [both] Foreign intervention, including the type of emphasis on “Kotler and “about the Iranian regime,” is why she said Canada declared it a “terrorist entity” in 2022, with no diplomatic ties with Iran since 2012.
Anand also said she called Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi last Saturday and then reiterated Canada’s ongoing desire to seek responsibility from the Islamic Republic to land the PS752 in 2020, which resulted in the deaths of 55 permanent Canadians and 30 30 residents.
Kotler said that since the aerial tragedy, victim families in Iran and Canada have been “harassment and threatened”.
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On Wednesday, the Globe and Mail reported that the Canadian Border Service had determined that 20 people were deemed unacceptable because they were believed to be senior Iranian officials.
