Canada will continue to organize with its international partners to ensure that the Iranian regime solutions for its gross and systematic human rights violations and actions that continue to endanger international peace and security. The Iranian program must answer for its intense repression of brave Iranian voices. Despite condemnation from the international community regarding the regime’s gross and systematic individual rights violations, the program continues to crack down on presentations and deploy propaganda that will serves as a pretext for the destabilizing activities both domestically and abroad. These include: The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada is imposing additional sanctions under the Specific Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations . In response, Europe is imposing sanctions on 2 Iranian individuals plus 3 Iranian entities which are complicit in these activities.
- Vahid Yaminpour , Mouthpiece Minister of Sports plus Youth, a secretary from the Supreme Council of Youth Affairs and a state propaganda official who has hosted programs, produced content and supplied advisory services for the Islamic Republic of Iran Transmitting Corporation, which is a state-controlled media organization that directly solutions to the supreme leader’s office and propagates the regime’s talking points;
- Mohsen Qomi , a older regime insider, a Shi’a cleric and a member of the particular Press Supervisory Board and Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution who also provides a deputy adviser for worldwide affairs in the supreme leader’s office and an agent to the supreme leader upon international communications; Mohsen Qomi is a permanent member of the Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for appointing the next supreme head;
- The 15 Khordad Foundation (also known as the Fifteenth of Khordad Foundation), an untaxed groundbreaking foundation that enriches Iranian kleptocrats, finances the functions of the most senior officials in the regime and implements the particular regime’s domestic policies and regional activities that endanger international peace and safety;
- Iran Newspaper , an official distribution of Iran, which disseminates the regime’s disinformation and propaganda to justify the state’s domestic repression as well as destabilizing regional operations via organizations such as the Quds Power and Iran-aligned non-state actors; and
- The Press Supervisory Board , a good organ of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance that is empowered by the Iranian regime’s Push Law in order to arbitrarily shut down news stores and magazines should the board’s membership deem their published content to be harmful to the particular “bases of the Islamic Republic” or insulting to the supreme leader, senior members of the Shi’a clergy or open public morals.
The month of january 9, 2023 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada
