On Saturday, January 7th, Arad’s father Mehrzad Zarei organized a memorial to his son and the other victims of PS752 at Elgin Mills cemetery. The memorial also honoured Iranians who have been recently executed by the Regime and those in prison for supporting the revolution.
To re-enter a new deal with the Islamic Republic would be a horrible betrayal of the people in Iran fighting the regime on the streets, the families in Lebanon blown up in the Hezbollah Beirut explosion, Israelis under Islamic Republic rocket fire, Yemenis hoping for peace, the victims of PS752 and all others who value humans rights around the globe.
Zero-COVID was the public policy that caused millions of Chinese citizens to get welded into their homes, locked inside stores to “quarantine” or put into camps whenever any COVID infection was detected in a mainland Chinese city.
Now the vast majority of testing and quarantine requirements have been wiped out.
On November 22nd, 2022 I heard a horrifying account from an Iranian living in a smaller city in the Kurdish region that paints a very clear picture: The Islamic Republic is engaging in crimes against humanity on their own people.
There are widespread reports of heavy fire being used and as the regime has cut the power in an attempt to shut down the internet to facilitate their massacre of the people.
In mid-October 2022, Vladimir Putin declared the southern Ukraine city of Kherson annexed and officially part of permanent Russia. In less than a month his army is in full retreat across the Dnipro river under heavy bombardment from Ukrainian troops.
Trudeau’s big showing of increased sanctions against the regime was just a performance. All bluster, no substance. The Liberals said they are putting on over 10 000 sanctions on officials and IRGC members, however, most of those officials are no longer in positions of power. Trudeau also used the Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), not the criminal code which does not have any teeth internationally.
The election also showed that the majority of the electorate is over the 2020 election on both sides. People don’t care for the Democrate’s rhetoric that democracy dies when you vote for Republicans. Conversely, people don’t want candidates dedicated to litigating the 2020 election. The ghost of Donald Trump may still haunt Capitol Hill, but the rest of us seem unconcerned.
For years NIAC has been able to benefit from general apathy towards Middle Eastern issues and has always been able to deflect a national conversation away from Iran often using a false equivalency with the Iraq war to turn off war-weary Americans. But now that the world is listening to the Iranian people, NIAC has lost its major advantage.
After the event was over Negar Mortazavi went online to claim victimhood status and even claimed that there was a bomb threat because of her talk. (She even still has the tweet pinned on her Twitter page at the time this article was published)
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