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Joe Adam George: Canada can no longer ignore Iran’s dangerous shadow network 

Several recent incidents have heightened concerns about entrenched Iranian regime activity inside our country

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In his book “From Auschwitz to Tehran,” Eran Hermoni recounts a meeting in October 2000 between Spanish prime minister José María Aznar and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As Khamenei prepared tea, Aznar asked him a direct question: “When you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you think about?”

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Khamenei stirred his cup and replied bluntly: “To eliminate Israel.”

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The remark was revealing, but not surprising. The Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ideology has long framed its struggle as civilizational — a conflict not only with Israel but with the West itself. Khamenei frequently described western civilization as “deceitful, hypocritical and filled with lies,” rhetoric that helped justify Tehran’s decades-long campaign of terror and subversion abroad.

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Khamenei may be dead, but the machinery he built remains firmly in place. The Islamic Republic operates a global network of operatives, sympathizers and proxy groups tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From Hezbollah in Lebanon to covert sleeper cells embedded across the West, this infrastructure allows Tehran to project power far beyond its borders.

Canada has prominently featured within this network, serving as a hub for transnational criminal activity linked to regime........

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