RTFri, 13 Sep 2019 23:50 UTC
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Canada has seized and sold some $30 million worth of Iranian assets, court documents indicate. The funds were transferred to American families seeking compensation over terrorist acts that were all pinned on Tehran.
The confiscated assets
include two buildings - the Iranian Cultural Center in Ottawa and Center for Iranian Studies in Toronto - as well as some $2.6 million seized from Iranian bank accounts and a couple of vehicles.The two properties have been sold for $26.5 and $1.85 million respectively, while the proceeding were transferred to several families in the US, who sought share of the assets as a compensation for various acts of terrorism they blamed on Iran. Court documents confirming that the funds have been distributed are dated August 7, yet only caught eye of local media on Friday.
The recipients of the compensations include the family of Marla Bennett, a US exchange student killed in bombing of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem back in 2002, as well as Edward Tracy and Joseph Cicippio, who were held hostage in Lebanon from 1986 to 1991.
These attacks have been blamed either on Hezbollah or Hamas, two organizations allegedly supported by Iran.While foreign governments are typically immune to lawsuits, Canada adopted the so-called Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act back in 2012 that makes an exception of "state sponsors of terrorism." Currently, only two countries - Iran and Syria - are on the Canadian blacklist.The Canadian case against Iran has been
dragging for a few years, and
the Islamic Republic tried to challenge the property seizure, demanding some actual proof from the claimants. The mere presence of Iran on the terrorist list was appearently enough to dismiss that appeal, however.
Tehran has been rejecting all the allegations of its involvement into the terrorist acts, branding the whole case
"politically motivated."
Comment: Canada isn't endearing itself to the world by being the US' lapdog, this incident being only the most recent example:
Those days of being quietly proud without fanfare or flag waving are gone.
The seizure and sale of Iranians assets in Canada now shines the wrong kind of spotlight on Canada. Canada is part of the Anglo-Saxon world for sure but we were not war mongerers like the US or England or Australia. In the last few years Canada has been making moves that bring us closer to the US truth as they propagandize it. The embarassing joke we have for Prime Minister is trying to prove to the world that Canada is a big boy. Well that big boy has illusions of grandeur because in reality that big boy does not have a big stick and is just trying to puff up it's scrawny chest to impress the thug next door it is afraid of.
Where are the proofs that Iran is ordering Hezbollah or Hamas ? Iran supports them. Given the little I know about the Arab world, I doubt Iran could order them around. In fact I don't believe it for a second. Travelling Canadians are being put unwillingly in the crosshairs of US ennemies, a list that keep increasing with each year that goes by. The Canadian Government is taunting extremists to pay us a visit. This government we now have does not represent the majority of Canadians.
I am ashamed of our leaders. Trudeau is a disgrace to Canada.