Group representing grieving families killed on Flight PS752 says Canada\u0027s sanctions don\u0027t go far enough and is \u0027naive\u0027 in dealing with Iran
That has coincided with the 1,000-day anniversary of the downing of Flight PS752 near Tehran, which killed 176 people, most of whom were headed through Ukraine to Canada.Esmaeilion chalked that up to a naive bureaucracy that sees Iran as a normal country.
He said he’s told officials that Canadians would never play a hockey game with North Korea, and yet Canada’s national men’s soccer team was scheduled to play with Iran back in June, before Canada Soccer cancelled amid political pushback.Article content And while the Liberals have said they updated their sanctions list Monday based on impact from Esmaeilion’s group, he said there were many more officials that relatives suggested months ago.
This week, a crowd of Iranian Canadians took to Parliament Hill, demanding Ottawa deem the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. “We can exempt those people. We have talked to several lawyers, and this is a simple solution for putting the IRGC on the list.”Article content
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