(Global News) For 12 years, Roohollah Firooznam ran a company that installed and operated security cameras for Iran’s hardline regime.
The cameras were used to monitor detainees at prisons where torture took place, and to keep watch on political opponents.
Three directors of the company were senior members of the intelligence ministry. A former vice-president of Iran was a shareholder.
Firooznam’s business partner in another venture was a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who spent a decade guarding Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.
Nonetheless, in 2018 the Canadian embassy in Turkey gave Firooznam a travel visa after he proposed “visiting tourist attractions and sightseeing in Canada.”
