Iranian officials from Canada were banned – but this is the former regime member fell in April

Mahdi Nasiri told the world that he was on his way to Canada in April.

The former prominent Iranian official posted a series of farewell-farewell images-in a farewell hug-on Instagram for more than 250,000 followers and anyone else he sees.

It has been in Canada since then.

But now, according to a source, his name was informed of RCMP. The Canadian security authorities are facing calls from the public to investigate the reason for allowing him to enter the first place – and if he should be expelled.

“I have arrived”, “I have arrived”.

Nasiri was described as important militants in Iran during the first decade of the twentieth century. He did not deny his previous roles of CBC news, but he also said that he criticized Iran’s regime over the past six years.

In 2022, the Trudeau government promised that the former and former Iranian regime officials live in Canada after the escalation of concerns related to public pressure and safety affairs. The Iranian Canadians reported the harassmentAnd intimidation and observation that they believe are linked to Ferran. The espionage agency in Canada is investigating death threats From Iran it was real. and The US explosive accusation regulations revealed An Iranian conspiracy to kidnap Canadians.

In response, the government determined the leadership of Iranian security, security and intelligence agencies as unacceptable in Canada in 2022 by allegedly being involved in terrorism and systematic and total human rights violations. This appointment expanded last year to ban any person from Canada as a senior official of the Iranian government at any time since June 2003.

But Nasiri is the latest issue that raises questions about the effectiveness of the Canada campaign. To date, only one Iranian official has been removed from the country.

The role of Nasiri in 2000s

Nasiri is famous for its role as administrative director of the most conservative Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, in the 1990s – funded by the supreme leader of Iran.

“It was very prominent in the state -owned media, which is often the platform used by the regime itself to pursue defectors, to create fees against frank people,” said Shahrouz, who criticizes the regime.

Nasseri was then appointed as a major role as a political deputy policy -making council in the imams on Friday, throughout the country from 2001 to 2005.

“Friday prayers are the main platform that Iran offers talking and propaganda points for supporters, which is a costly job for people closely related to the regime.”

“The fact that he had this role indicates to me that it was an integral part of this system.”

Nasiri continued to appoint a senior representative of the Office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamanini in the United Arab Emirates until 2009, according to Iranian media reports.

The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) says, on a large scale, the senior Iranian officials who served from 2003 by unacceptable ascending to Canada. But he will not say whether he is looking into a Nasiri case.

Nasiri defended himself when contacting him by CBC News for comment.

“I have repeatedly explained my career background in the media interviews and criticized that period publicly,” Nasiri said in a written statement. “There is nothing hidden in my past.”

“Moreover, I have never done any military, security or intelligence position. My role was in a press newspaper Kayhan and my position in organizing imams on Friday is religiously and worshiped.”

Nasiri will not confirm whether his last job with the Iranian government in the United Arab Emirates was when it was requested by CBC News.

Visitor visa issued in 2023

Nasiri said that it took only a few days in 2023 – before expanding the ban – to obtain a visiting visa connected to his passport from the Canadian consulate in Istanbul. He said that his son is a Canadian citizen who invited him and his mother to visit him.

A visitor visa can be valid for up to 10 years.

When asked if he was revealing his time with the Iranian government of Canadian officials, Nasiri said he was not forced to do so.

Nasiri said: “I have been asked only about my activities over the past ten years, during which I have not held any government positions,” Nasiri said.

CBC News asked immigration, refugees and citizenship in Canada why Nasiri did not ask about his experience in previous work.

The administration said it could not comment on specific cases, but said that the visa applicants “are carefully evaluated.”

“The visa of senior officials who are subjected to the nomination of the system can be canceled, the loss of their temporary or permanent situation and its removal from Canada,” said Jeffrey McDonald’s spokesman.

Kelly Sondburg, a professor of criminology at Mount Royal University, who specializes in border security, says it is not surprising that Nasiri did not ask more questions.

He says that the examination and application of immigration in Canada “at a crisis point.”

“Federal departments and federal administrations were well aware of this neglect and often deliberately turned a blind eye.”

Nasiri said he was “preferred not to answer” if he is facing a migration session, but he stressed that he does not realize any investigation into CBSA in his visa.

Invitations for investigation

Nasiri CBC News told him that he understood that Iranian Canadians are concerned about the current and former regime officials in Canada. “They are justified in their fears,” and called on the Islamic Republic of Iran, “a dictatorial and repressive regime.

“However, I was an active critic, and in fact, opponents of the Islamic Republic over the past six years,” Nasiri said in his statement to BBC News.

He said that he has a “liberal position” now and supports Reza Bahlafi, and he is a supporter of liberal democracy and a member of the family that ruled the country before the 1979 revolution.

Nasiri has an active YouTube page as it frequently publishes the interviews it had to the regime, including the British Broadcasting Commission.

Iranian analyst and journalist Babak Tagvay says that he wants to consider Canadian security officials in the Nasiri case because of what he calls “red flags”.

Tghvae published an article with the American Think-Tank-The East Forum on how Iranian regime officials rename themselves as opponents of the regime to stay in Canada-NASIRI as an example.

He said that Nasiri was one day of the “most important militants” in Iran.

Tghvae says his role as an editor in Kayhan indicates that he could have had the highest levels of clearance from Iranian intelligence and was cooperating or even cooperating with them. He also said that his role in Friday prayers was important because they were known to receive directives from the regime.

“They are receiving orders to talk about specified topics during Friday prayers,” he said. “On politics, on military security and economies and anything related to what the regime wants for the purpose of psychological warfare and propaganda.”

Tghvae says that former Iranian regime members who are trying to settle in Western countries usually criticize the regime and the side with the parties to the opposition to create evidence of the refugee or asylum issue in the future.

“Sometimes these individuals are afraid of deporting or arresting them. They go to the survival situation,” said Talafai, who was criticizing the regime.

Nasiri says he did not apply for a refugee status and hoped to return to Iran soon, but he did not say when.

Regardless of his position publicly, Vancouver’s lawyer, Shahiriari, indicates that the current Canadian law should prevent senior Iranian officials, such as Nasiri, from entering the country.

“Whether it has truly changed or not, it is not for me to rule, and the law does not really matter,” Shahiriyari said.

“This is laughing”

CBSA says since 2022, more than 130 suspected Iranian regime officials’ visas have been canceled, and 20 unacceptable people have been reported, and three cases have succeeded in immigration sessions, which led to the deportation of letters.

“It is almost laughing, unfortunately,” Shahriari said.

Shahiriyari is a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Council in Canada, and it now manages a popular group that it says is achieved in more than 375 members of the suspect Iranian regime, their families and their companies in Canadian lands.

She says CBSA numbers are “minimal” compared to the evidence that Shahriari transferred to the Canadian authorities about 100 Iranian officials already suspected of Canada.

You will not say whether one of them is one of them, referring to secrecy.

“The question is: How do these people get a visa to come to Canada in the first place?” She said.