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25 Nov

Irwin Cotler responds to Iran’s assassination attempt on his life: ‘This has to serve as a wake-up call’

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JL;DR SUMMARY Irwin Cotler, a prominent Canadian human rights advocate, has been under constant police protection following threats from Iranian agents due to his criticism of Iran's transnational interference and repression. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Iranian Threat  Human Rights Advocacy  Antisemitic Protests  Iranian Regime  Canadian Politics  Global Democracy  Irwin Cotler  Jewish Canada  Transnational Repression  Icc Arrest Warrants 

Places mentioned

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Then last week, the Globe and Mail published a story, and since the cat's out of the bag, so to speak, he's decided to end his silence and turn his ordeal into a call to action on a threat that he's been calling for for a long time."
Iran
"Yet until now, all this time, Cotler asked us at the CJN not to talk about his being in a sort of house arrest for his own safety."
Berlin, Germany
"In Berlin, rumors are spreading."
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
"the way Iran has already done elsewhere and possibly are even behind the most recent kidnapping and murder of that young Chabad rabbi in the United Arab Emirates."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"but then the Globe and Mail broke that story about it, and they called me and I said no comment."
Israel
"In Canada, we've had this foreign interference inquiry, but that's basically been addressing interference during elections and the electoral process."
Russian Federation
"and Israel, but they also have their tentacles here in Canada, the way Iran has already done elsewhere and possibly are even behind the most recent kidnapping and murder of that young Chabad rabbi in the United Arab Emirates."
China
"Iran and other bad actors are carrying out interference with democracy around the world, not just in Israel and the Middle East now as the backers of Hamas and Hezbollah."
Myanmar
"Raoul Wallenberg Center, he's also turned a spotlight on the human rights abuses of political prisoners in a host of bad-acting countries, including Myanmar, Russia, China, and Iran."
Hanoi, Vietnam
"Canada's only declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorists this year, but in 2012, they sanctioned, the Quds Unit."
Canada
"You know, in Canada, we've had this foreign interference inquiry, but that's basically been addressing interference during elections and the electoral process."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"as a priority, and some members of the government."
Budapest, Hungary
"Yes, number one, Raoul Wallenberg is not only crying, but he is a kind of first honorary citizen."
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