ICYMI - Opinion: Canada must put Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on terrorist list under Criminal Code
Rather than applying a blanket criminalization of all conscripts, Ottawa could use a Criminal Code designation as the basis for requiring economic institutions and travel agencies to apply enhanced due diligence of draftees before engaging in transactions with them. In this respect, Ottawa could give special consideration to older IRGC members who served, through no choice of their own, in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and are unlikely to pose a threat today.
Another possible reason for Trudeau’s inaction: He may believe that the IRGC’s status as a state actor precludes a Criminal Code designation under Canadian law. Yet there is a precedent for this sort of designation. As Andrew House, the chief of staff to former public safety minister Vic Toews,The downing of Flight PS752 was a watershed moment in Canadian-Iran relations that demands a forceful response.
Toby Dershowitz is senior vice president for government relations and strategy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies . Tzvi Kahn is a research fellow and senior editor at FDD. Katie Romaine is a government relations associate at FDD. Follow the authors on Twitter
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