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Canada Designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist Entity
The Canadian government has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, which bars thousands of Iranian officials from entering Canada and makes it a criminal offense to provide financial support to the group. The IRGC is a branch of Iran’s military that reports directly to the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has long said it was looking at such a move, but had resisted doing so because of concerns it could capture thousands of low-level IRGC officials instead of being targeted at senior members of the regime. Canadian ... (full story)