(Globe and Mail) Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler, who is on an Iranian hit list, says he fears Tehran may have activated sleeper cells in Canada to carry out acts of violence against opponents of the regime.
Mr. Cotler, a noted Canadian human-rights advocate and critic of the Iranian clerical regime, would not discuss his personal security situation since war broke out between Israel and Iran on June 12.
The Globe and Mail reported late last year that Iran allegedly plotted to assassinate Mr. Cotler, founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He also served as Canada’s first special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism from 2020 to 2023.
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