Leveraging its organizational resources and financial power, the MKO infiltrated European, Canadian, and US parliaments with its agents or formed lobbies within these countries to further its terrorist agenda.
Aside from the MKO, another terrorist group that has felt the sting of the IRGC is ISIS. While ISIS doesn’t appear to be openly active, it continues its political pursuits covertly in Canada and the US. It’s no surprise that these terrorist groups, thwarted by the IRGC, would strike back at this official and legitimate military force of Iran by convincing the Canadian government to blacklist the IRGC.
I have made clear that the blacklisting won’t impede the IRGC’s lawful activities. The people who stand to lose the most from the designation are Iranians residing in Canada. Given that the IRGC is an official military force alongside the regular army, a significant number of Iranian men have done their mandatory military service within this force. Now, with the passing of this law, Iranian men who served in the IRGC and live in Canada are branded as terrorists, even though many may have no ongoing ties to Iran and have simply become collateral damage in the terrorist lobby’s campaign against the IRGC.
In response, it’s expected that Tehran will take retaliatory action once the dust settles from the presidential election scheduled for next Friday, and the Iranian parliament will legally designate Canadian military forces in the West Asian region as terrorists. Although there may not be a large number of Canadian troops in the region, they will be viewed as terrorists by the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Iranian officials have emphasized, Canadia bears full responsibility for this unwise decision.