Kavoos Soofi: Iranian Official

Iranian Embassy Dept: Any Iranian citizen who wants to live in another country can return if he wishes, but nobody can force him, an official in the Iranian embassy told . He must come to the embassy and make the request. If Soofi was sent back, he would be returned to Canada, according to The Star. The 43-year-old, whose case was featured in last week s Sunday Star, was detained in January for a month, pending deportation, but a federal court judge granted a stay of removal while his case is reviewed and canada s ministry of citizenship and immigration wants to deport Kavoos Soofi to his native Iran as a failed asylum seeker: but an Iranian official says the country doesn t want him. Soofi has been fighting for asylum since 2008, and experts say that his conversion to an Eastern religion, public criticism of Islam and its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and protests against Iran s government would put him at risk of arrest and a possible death sentence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.