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[Sara @FightForIt8712]

@Ardeshirz Thank you so much for being the voice of Iranian former conscripts who are facing unfair treatment for immigration purposes

[Ardeshir Zarezadeh @Ardeshirz]

Iranian conscripts call for immigration exemption after mandatory service:

https://t.co/oJeIemYxZX

[Sara @FightForIt8712]

@GarnettGenuis Thank you so much @GarnettGenuis for taking time to stand beside us and being our voice, this means the world to us.

[Garnett Genuis @GarnettGenuis]

Victims of forced conscription should not be treated the same as those who chose to join a terrorist organization.

Today I joined members of the Iranian-Canadian community on Parliament Hill to demand that the government stop targeting conscripts and deport real IRGC terrorists.

Many of these conscripts have been among the most vocal opponents of the IRGC.

Conservatives have already shown the government a simple legislative fix to this problem. Thus far, Liberals have failed to adopt that fix.

[Freedom @FreedomA722]

Keep Canada safe by targeting real IRGC threats—not innocent forced conscripts.
The U.K. and Australia distinguish innocent forced conscripts from IRGC members. Canada should examine that distinction too.
Another major @CBCNews report raises the question.

@PierrePoilievre @MarkJCarney @MichelleRempel @gary_srp @LenaMetlegeDiab
@AliEhsassi @vincentneilho @GarnettGenuis @Rob_Oliphant @BradRedekopp @CostasMenegakis @MelissaLantsman @KevinVuongxMP @SameerZuberi @MarcDalton @rezamoridi @Roman_Baber @annamgainey @PatrickBWeiler @TeamKerzner @mpziad @daveeppckl @UCAN_Advocacy @NazaninAJ @AHousefather @FrankCaputoKTN @pfragiskatos @viraniarif @RonMcKinnonLib @MPRandyHoback @HonEdFast @DeanAllisonMP @jasrajshallan @coteau @sergecormierlib @ConnieCodyMP @Braedon_Clark @SandraCobena_ @SuVe4Madurai @smeurrens @scoopercooper @StewGlobal @ShaunChenTO @shuvmajumdar @maggiechidvn @AndrewScheer @AnitaAnandMP @kinsellawarren

#ConscriptsAreNotMembers

https://t.co/NnPOiV9kuJ

[Freedom @FreedomA722]

Thank you, @PierrePoilievre, for recognizing the crucial distinction between actual IRGC members and Iranians innocent forced conscripts.
To keep Canada safe, target real security threats—not victims of forced conscription. Mandatory conscription is not membership or support.

@AliEhsassi @vincentneilho @GarnettGenuis @Rob_Oliphant @BradRedekopp @CostasMenegakis @MelissaLantsman @KevinVuongxMP @SameerZuberi @MarcDalton @rezamoridi @Roman_Baber @annamgainey @PatrickBWeiler @TeamKerzner @mpziad @daveeppckl @UCAN_Advocacy @NegarMojtahedi @NazaninAJ @AHousefather @FrankCaputoKTN @pfragiskatos @viraniarif @RonMcKinnonLib @MPRandyHoback @HonEdFast @DeanAllisonMP @jasrajshallan @coteau @sergecormierlib @ConnieCodyMP @Braedon_Clark @SandraCobena_ @SuVe4Madurai @smeurrens @kshahrooz @scoopercooper @StewGlobal @NegarMojtahedi @ShaunChenTO @shuvmajumdar @maggiechidvn @AndrewScheer @AnitaAnandMP @kinsellawarren @esmaeilion

#ConscriptsAreNotMembers

[UnheardConscripts @UCAN_Advocacy]

Hundreds of Iranian conscripts are now facing inadmissibility to Canada because of compulsory service they never chose.

Among those affected are highly educated professionals, researchers, and academics who have built their lives in Canada and are contributing to the country’s advancement across many fields.

They did not join the IRGC. They were compelled to serve by a regime many had spent years trying to escape. Now, people who have spent years contributing to Canada are being put at risk because of circumstances they had no control over.

A conscript is not an IRGC member. A forced assignment is not a chosen affiliation. Canada must distinguish between genuine threats and ordinary people who were themselves victims of the regime.

This CBC investigation puts a human face on a deeply concerning issue that Canada cannot afford to ignore. Please read and share.
@MarkJCarney @gary_srp @LenaMetlegeDiab @PierrePoilievre @MelissaLantsman @GarnettGenuis @MichelleRempel @AliEhsassi @IJCollective @AmnestyNow @pfragiskatos
https://t.co/1ThAL1flC4

[UnheardConscripts @UCAN_Advocacy]

At the Cyrus the Great event in Toronto on September 19, 2026, attended by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered an important message: Canada must focus on the actual perpetrators—not innocent conscripts who were themselves victims of the regime.

In his remarks, Poilievre spoke directly about the concern that Canada’s response to the IRGC threat is being misdirected toward innocent conscripts who were trying to escape the regime:

“...the response of our government instead has been to go after the innocent conscripts who wanted to get away from those thugs. My friends, we should stand with the innocent people, not the terrorists.”

For former Iranian conscripts, compulsory service was not a choice, a political allegiance, or voluntary membership in the IRGC. Yet many are now facing serious immigration consequences because they were compelled to serve.

You cannot fight terrorism by inflating the numbers and turning victims into perpetrators.

Canada should focus its resources on individuals who actually participated in, supported, or willingly served the IRGC—not ordinary people who were forced into compulsory service.

Conscripts are not members. Victims are not perpetrators. Justice requires that distinction.

Special thanks to @PierrePoilievre for continuing to speak up for victims of the Iranian regime and for calling for fairness and a more targeted approach.

@MelissaLantsman @MichelleRempel @CostasMenegakis @vincentneilho @GarnettGenuis @MarcDalton @MarkJCarney @gary_srp @LenaMetlegeDiab @AliEhsassi

[ویرجینیا وولف مناطق محروم @13virginiawoolf]

پیر پوالیور عزیزم چقدر زیبا راجع به ایران و ایرانی‌ها صحبت کرد. 🥹
از تمدن ایران، از خدمات ایران به جهان، از خوبی‌ها و موفقیت ایرانی‌های دیاسپورا گفت.
از اهمیت اخراج مقامات عالیرتبه ج‌ا و توقف اخراج‌ افراد به خاطر سربازی هم حرف زد.
از تغییر حکومت ایران هم قاطعانه حمایت کرد.
واقعا چی باعث شد که بعضی‌هاتون ترجیح دادید کارنی نخست وزیر باشه ولی پوالیور نه؟🚶🏻‍♀️

[Fatima @Fatima_1994_D]

@UCAN_Advocacy We came to Canada seeking safety—now our families face devastating uncertainty because of service our husbands were forced to complete. Conscription is not membership.
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers

@MarkJCarney @gary_srp @LenaMetlegeDiab
@AliEhsassi @PierrePoilievre @GarnettGenuis

[Mito Komon @MitiComaan]

It's unfair to Canadians when their tax dollars go toward 'protection' that misses the actual threat. The CA government should target genuine IRGC members — not conscripts who were themselves victims of the IRGC and hate it just as much as everyone else.

https://t.co/soPqY3FH2p

[Therese @theresemacdona6]

What sort of a fascist country are we becoming @MarkJCarney. Our immigrants should not be treated this way! #Iran https://t.co/OpCP1ELgYy

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

CBC has been running this sympathy piece as lead on radio and television. A former IRGC conscript is facing possible inadmissibility in Canada. The framing is familiar: he “had no choice,” it was “mandatory,” he only did “administrative work,” and now he’s protested the regime so we should feel sorry for him

That is the same “just following orders” line that was used to launder the records of actual Nazis who later arrived in Canada. Compulsory service does not erase what the organization is. The IRGC is not a conventional army. It is the regime’s primary instrument of internal repression and external terrorism. Canada listed it as a terrorist entity for a reason

Earlier this year the IRGC carried out the January 8–9 massacres. Multiple leaked internal reports, medical networks, and opposition investigations put the death toll in the tens of thousands—estimates commonly cited in the 30,000–36,500 range from IRGC intelligence documents themselves, with some sources going higher, toward 40,000–50,000. They shot protesters in the head and chest across hundreds of cities. That is not ancient history. That is 2026!

Choosing to humanize an IRGC veteran while those bodies are still being counted is not neutral journalism. It is an editorial decision. CBC is asking viewers to treat membership in a listed terrorist organization that just slaughtered its own people as a bureaucratic inconvenience rather than a security and moral problem

Hundreds of similar letters have gone out. That is not “cruelty.” That is the Canadian government finally noticing that “I was only doing admin” is not an automatic exemption when the organization in question is the IRGC. If CBC wants to cover the human cost, start with the Iranians theses Guards actually killed this year, not the ones now asking Canada to forget who they served @brodiefenlon

[Garnett Genuis @GarnettGenuis]

I fought hard to get the IRGC listed as a terrorist organization. When I put forward a bill to list them, I included a section to protect victims of forced conscription. Liberals failed to include this part of my bill.

We already have a clear solution to this problem. Liberals should adopt it.

[UnheardConscripts @UCAN_Advocacy]

🚨 CBC NEWS: Iranian told he may have to leave Canada over past IRGC Mandatory Conscription
This is not an isolated case.
Hundreds of Iranian nationals are facing possible inadmissibility and removal over past mandatory conscription in Iran.

Canada has consistently assured the Iranian-Canadian community that conscripts would not be affected by the IRGC listing and that cases would be assessed individually.
Yet what we are witnessing today raises a deeply troubling question:

Are those assurances being honoured in practice?

Families who built their lives in Canada are now facing uncertainty, inadmissibility findings, and the possibility of removal because of mandatory service they were compelled to complete.

🇨🇦 Mandatory conscription is not membership. Conscription is not ideological affiliation. Canada must keep its promise.

📢 This issue affects hundreds of families. Read the CBC report. Share their stories. Make their voices heard.

@MarkJCarney @gary_srp @LenaMetlegeDiab @AliEhsassi @PierrePoilievre @MelissaLantsman @GarnettGenuis @vincentneilho @CostasMenegakis

[sch @sh12942122]

Your Majesty,

The Iranian community in Canada needs your support now more than ever. Please break the silence and speak up for us. Your voice can make a profound difference at this critical moment.

@PahlaviReza
@PahlaviComms

[Saba @Saaba_sp]

@AidaTalebi79 @LenaMetlegeDiab @MarkJCarney @gary_srp @AliEhsassi @KasraAarabi @MelissaLantsman @MichelleRempel @SameerZuberi @SalmaZahid15 @JennaSudds Former conscripts who are assigned to IRGC are the victims of the systems . Don’t punish them as they were member.
@MarkJCarney
@gary_srp
@LenaMetlegeDiab
@PierrePoilievre
@vincentneilho
@MichelleRempel
#ConscriptsAreNotMembers

[Rene Duchamp @ReneDuchamp]

IRGC operatives must be removed from Canada. Meanwhile, forced conscripts who had no choice are being wrongly targeted.

https://t.co/35sYbZ1h82

@MarkJCarney @gary_srp @LenaMetlegeDiab @PierrePoilievre @vincentneilho @MichelleRempel
@kshahrooz

#ConscriptsAreNotMembers

[Ari @cast_a_w_a_y]

Canada is supposed to be a safe haven from authoritarian regimes, not a place that punishes you for being their victim. Blaming young men for a mandatory draft they could not avoid goes against everything Canada stands for.

#JusticeForIranianConscripts #ConscriptsAreNotMembers

[Tamara Mosher-Kuczer @TTRRMK]

https://t.co/zhV2cdQhm5