Canada alert as Iran threatens national criticism after Israel’s attacks

Ottawa, Canada-While military Iranian reprisal attacks on Israel ended the Canadian Government Department responsible for National Security Monitoring “the residual impact of evolving situation in the Middle East,” said a public security spokesman.

“The organizations responsible for the application of the laws of Canada remain on alert,” said Noémie Allard in a press release provided to Fox News Digital in which she indicated that the current level of threat of national terrorism in Canada is “average, which means that a violent extremist attack is a realistic possibility at that time”.

Meanwhile, Irwin Cotler, former Canadian Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General and Defender of Human Rights who was targeted by the Iranian regime, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the Islamic Republic intensifies its massive domestic oppression campaign “against its opponents and could embark on” transnational repression “against its adversaries abroad.

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The opponents of the Iranian regime in Toronto in Canada organized a pro-Israeli rally following the Hamas terrorist group attacking the Jewish state. (Thanks to Emily Schafer)

A long -standing critic of the Iranian office regime, Cotler has been under the protection of police from Royal Canada in Canada since 2023 since 2023, when Canadian intelligence officials have identified a death threat from Iran.

“Iranian diaspora groups, human rights defenders, journalists, Jews and Israelis have all become potential targets,” Cotler told Fox News Digital in an interview. “It’s a time when we have to be alert.”

He noted that this week, three political prisoners were executed in Iran for charges of spying for Israel, and during the 12 -day war with Israel, 700 other Iranians were arrested under allegations that they collaborated with Israel.

Cotler, born in Montreal, an international human rights lawyer who created the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights 10 years ago, is trying to guarantee the release of Ahmadreza Djalali – an Iranian Swedish doctor accused of being an Israeli espion, who had been imprisoned for nine years in Evinclose prison in Iran. He faces that Cotler described as “an imminent threat of execution”.

File – Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard walks during a parade. IRGC is appointed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department. A large part of his work consists in making secretly outside Iran. (Reuters.) (Reuters)

He fears that sleeping cells have been activated in Canada to target those who oppose the Iranian regime and urge the Canadian government to prioritize the creation of an independent agency to combat external threats of repression and assassination of rogue countries such as Iran, China and Russia.

Cotler has also noted that Canadian Human Rights lawyer Kaveh Shahrooz, who he said was also targeted by the Iranian regime, believes that the number of Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents (IRGC) operating in Canada is “underrepresented” and “that the threat is greater than what we appreciate”.

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Fox News Digital could not reach Shahrooz for additional comments.

Canada should also follow the example of the United States Ministry of Justice and continue those who collaborate with sleeping cells led by Iran, said Cotler, who, in 2008, asked that the IRGC be listed as a terrorist entity – a designation that Canada finally adopted in 2024.

Last October, the Ministry of Justice officially accused Ruhollah Bazghandi, a senior IRGC official, involvement in a conspiracy in 2022 to kill the Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad – A friend of Cotler’s – in New York.

A sign marking the international border between the United States and Canada is represented at the Peace Arch Historical State Park in Blaine, Washington, March 5, 2025. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images)

At a virtual press conference of the NATO summit in Hague on Tuesday, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said that her government was “very concerned about (both) foreign interference, including the types that had been highlighted by” Cotler and “on the Iranian regime”, which is why she said that Canada said it was a “terrorist entity” Diplomatic relations with Iran since 2012.

Anand also said that she had received an appeal with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arabhchi last Saturday before the American air strikes against Iran, during which she reaffirmed the continuous desire of Canada to ask for the responsibility of the Islamic Republic for the drop in the leak of international turntables in Ukraine and 30 permanent residents.

Cotler said the families of victims in Iran and Canada had been “harassed and threatened” since air tragedy.

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Wednesday, The globe and the mail said the Canada Border Services Agency had identified 20 people deemed inadmissible because they would be senior Iranian officials.