Canada’s intelligence agency said Friday it was investigating credible death threats issued by Iran against people in Canada, a week after similar allegations from the United Kingdom.
“CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service, editor’s note) is actively investigating several death threats from the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on credible information,” agency spokesman Eric Balsam said.
Then to underline: “These hostile activities and foreign interference undermine finally the security of Canada and Canadians, as well as our democratic values and our sovereignty.”
These investigations, about which Eric Balsam did not elaborate, are being carried out with the help of international partners.
Similar threats against English journalists
CSIS is aware that Iran monitors and intimidates people in Canada, including people in the Iranian diaspora, to “silence those who openly denounce” the regime, it added.
The UK government accused Iran a week ago of making death threats against UK-based journalists.
“I have summoned the Iranian charge 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 television channel – 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.
Source: BFM TV
