Canada warns Iranian embassy
stop interfere with the Iranians liberty in Canada. National Post reported on
July 13 that the Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said on Friday his
department is keeping a close eye on the Iranian embassy amid reports Iran is
using its mission to recruit Iranian-Canadians to serve Tehran. 
Speaking out
for the first time since news emerged days earlier of an alleged mobilization
scheme outlined by Iran’s cultural counselor in a Farsi-language interview, Mr.
Baird said his department will “watch very closely” and that Ottawa takes the
counselor’s statements “tremendously seriously.” “Iranian-Canadians left Iran
for a better life in Canada,” Mr. Baird told reporters on Friday morning. “It is
completely inconsistent with any diplomatic mission for the Iranian mission in
Ottawa to interfere with the liberties they enjoy in Canada.” On Tuesday, Canada’s Foreign
Affairs department warned Iranian diplomats against interfering in the
“choices” of Iranian-Canadians who have “rejected the oppressive Iranian regime
and have chosen to come to Canada to build better lives.” 
On July 11 Nazanin
Afshin-jam, the most recognizable Iranian human rights activist and the wife of
Canada's Defence minister joined the voices of other freedom seeking Iranians,
and told National Post that the Iranian embassy in Ottawa should be closed.
Nazanin says Iran's embassy in Ottawa should be shut down amid allegations the
Islamic regime is using its office here to recruit Iranian-Canadians to serve
Tehran’s interests. The embassy has no purpose here. “The embassy in Ottawa
sometimes uses cultural events as an excuse to spread their own propaganda.”.
Last month Seven activists and
academics including Nazanin Afshin-jam wrote to Carleton university objecting
to the June 2 event held by Cultural assciation, which, according to the
cultural centre’s own report “provided the perfect image of how great the
founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran truly was."
Last month, Maclean’s magazine
revealed the head of the Carleton culture association is Ehsan Mohammadi — the
son of the Iranian cultural counsellor who recently mapped out the embassy’s
plan to ensure Iranian-Canadians “occupy high-level key positions” and “resist
being melted into the dominant Canadian culture".
Six Arab political
activists in southern Iran have been
sentenced to death
According
to Al Arabiya July 8, the families of the detainees confirmed the news on
Sunday that Mohammed Omouri, Hadi Rashidi, Hashem Shaabani, brothers Jaber
al-Bushokeh and
Mukhtar al-Bushokeh have
all been sentenced to death by hanging for the crime of “moharabeh” (being the enemies of God and posing a threat to national security).
In addition, Ahwazi activists were also sentenced for the same crimes: Abdul
Rahman Asakereh has
been sentenced to 20 years in jail, while Ismail Abayat was sentenced to five years.In the past 18 months, Iranian authorities have executed four Ahwazi activists of the same crime, three of whom were brothers.
Iraq is imposing restriction on Iranian refugees
in Camp Liberty
The
National Council of Resistance of Iran accused the Iraqi government yet again
that it's imposing Food blockade on Iranian residents in Liberty in Iraq and is
preventing transferring a group of residents to UNHCR for scheduled interviews.
