The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has blasted “enemy activity” that “undermines the security of Canada and Canadians”.
Canadian intelligence said on Friday it was investigating credible Iranian death threats against people in Canada, a week after similar allegations from the UK.
“CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) is actively investigating multiple death threats from the Islamic Republic of Iran based on credible information,” said agency spokesman Eric Balsam.
To then underline: “Undermine these hostile activities and foreign interference eventually the security of Canada and Canadians, and our democratic values and sovereignty”.
These investigations, about which Eric Balsam gave no information, are being carried out with the help of international partners.
Similar threats against English journalists
The CSIS is aware that Iran monitors and intimidates people in Canada, including people from the Iranian diaspora, to “silence those who openly denounce the regime,” he added.
The British government a week ago accused Iran of making death threats against British-based journalists.
“I summoned the Iranian chargé d’affaires today after journalists working in the UK received death threats from Iran,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted.
A London-based Persian-language TV station – Iran International – had reported a few days earlier that two of its journalists working in the UK had received death threats from the Revolutionary Guards, Tehran’s ideological army.
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