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
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.
آدم ها به فراموشی محتاجترند تا به خاطره،
آدم ها از خاطرات خنجر می سازند و با خنجرِ خاطره خط می اندازند روی همه چیز زندگی،
زندگی خجالت میکشد که از ذهن بیرون بیاید
بس که تن و بدن و سر و صورتش خط خطیِ خاطرات است؛
گاهی خاطره خطرناک ترین چیزِ جهان است.