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Iranian Nationals Dept: Jason Kenney said officials have been told to comb through applications from Iranian nationals to ensure anyone deemed allied with or part of the Iranian government declared last week a state sponsor of terrorism is barred from entering Canada, according to The Star. We want to ensure that people who may be inadmissible that is to say those who perhaps are associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Al Quds force, the Basij, or senior members of the regime are not admissible to Canada and oTTAWA Canada s immigration minister says he is heeding warnings that members and allies of the Iranian regime are trying to set up residency in Canada. Many in the Persian community in Canada have been concerned that people, who they believe have been close to or members of the regime and their relatives, . . . have in too many cases been able to establish residency in Canada, he told reporters at a news conference Monday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Demonstration Dept: They held another demonstration on Monday this one a demonstration of affection, featuring a bouquet for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and an impromptu sort of conga line on the lawn in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Vancouver Sun. Iranian Canadians referred to it as a "nest" of terrorism. Their protests against the Iranian embassy reached a high point in 2003, after the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in an Iranian prison and oTTAWA - For years, a group of Iranian Canadians held protests around Ottawa and elsewhere, stubbornly demanding the closure of the Iranian embassy and the severing of diplomatic ties. About three dozen members of different human rights and resistance groups were celebrating the government's decision last week to eject Iranian diplomats and shutter the Canadian embassy in Tehran. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Iranian-Canadians Dept: There are about 120,000 Iranian-Canadians in Metro Vancouver, according to Kam-biz Sheikh-Hassani, charg d'affaires of Iran's embassy in Ottawa, according to Vancouver Sun. The only place in Canada where these documents can be obtained is through Iran's embassy in Ottawa, which means Iranian-Canadians living elsewhere must send valuable documents such as birth certificates and passports through the mail, Sheik-Has-sani said and iran wants to open a consul-ate in Vancouver to serve the city's Iranian-Canadian population, but a federal government policy prohibits it. Sheik-Hassani said in a statement that many Iranians living in Canada have business interests or family members in Iran and because Iranian law does not recognize dual citizenship, they must use Iranian travel documents to enter the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Iranian-Canadians Dept: There are about 120,000 Iranian-Canadians in Metro Vancouver, according to Kam-biz Sheikh-Hassani, charg d'affaires of Iran's embassy in Ottawa, according to Vancouver Sun. The only place in Canada where these documents can be obtained is through Iran's embassy in Ottawa, which means Iranian-Canadians living elsewhere must send valuable documents such as birth certificates and passports through the mail, Sheik-Has-sani said and iran wants to open a consul-ate in Vancouver to serve the city's Iranian-Canadian population, but a federal government policy prohibits it. Sheik-Hassani said in a statement that many Iranians living in Canada have business interests or family members in Iran and because Iranian law does not recognize dual citizenship, they must use Iranian travel documents to enter the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Demonstration Dept: They held another demonstration on Monday this one a demonstration of affection, featuring a bouquet for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and an impromptu sort of conga line on the lawn in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Iranian Canadians referred to it as a "nest" of terrorism. Their protests against the Iranian embassy reached a high point in 2003, after the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in an Iranian prison and oTTAWA - For years, a group of Iranian Canadians held protests around Ottawa and elsewhere, stubbornly demanding the closure of the Iranian embassy and the severing of diplomatic ties. About three dozen members of different human rights and resistance groups were celebrating the government's decision last week to eject Iranian diplomats and shutter the Canadian embassy in Tehran. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Iran Dept: There are about 120,000 Iranian-Canadians in Metro Vancouver, according to Kam-biz Sheikh-Hassani, charg d'affaires of Iran's embassy in Ottawa, according to Vancouver Sun. The only place in Canada where these documents can be obtained is through Iran's embassy in Ottawa, which means Iranian-Canadians living elsewhere must send valuable documents such as birth certificates and passports through the mail, Sheik-Has-sani said and iran wants to open a consul-ate in Vancouver to serve the city's Iranian-Canadian population, but a federal government policy prohibits it. Sheik-Hassani said in a statement that many Iranians living in Canada have business interests or family members in Iran and because Iranian law does not recognize dual citizenship, they must use Iranian travel documents to enter the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Conservative government: The prime minister called Nowruz, the Iranian new year, "a time of renewal and rebirth." "Know that our government shares your hope that Iran itself will experience a renewal, that one day Iran will be a thriving, open country, and that the Iranian people will live free from tyranny and oppression," he said. "But until that time, our government will ensure that those who seek refuge from the Iranian regime can access freedom, democracy and justice here in Canada as Canadians." The crowd erupted in loud applause after Harper made the remarks, according to Huffington Post Canada. The Conservative government has taken a hard stance on Iran in recent years, after closing its embassy in Tehran and expelling Iranian diplomats from Canada in 2012. Harper delivered opening remarks Saturday night in Vancouver to a large audience at the Canadian Iranian Foundation 10th Annual Nowruz Gala. Harper went on to quote the Iranian poet Fereydoon Moshiri as writing: "Slowly, slowly, the spring is coming, what a beautiful world." "Today, our government joins with Iranians the world over in seeking the return of spring to Iran," Harper said. Kenney said in 2005 Canada received about 5,000 permanent residents from Iran, but that number jumped to 11,000 in 2014. "At the same time we've taken measures to do everything we can to ensure that those who are joining us in Canada intend to become good Canadians and to respect Canada values and to integrate successfully as Canadians, just as so many of you have done," Kenney said. National defence and multiculturalism minister Jason Kenney and local Conservative MPs Andrew Saxton and John Weston also spoke at the event. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian lives: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed regional countries and their U.S. masters for funding and arming the separatists, issuing a stark warning as regional tensions remain high in the wake of the U.S. withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal, according to Vancouver Courier. Iran will respond swiftly and decisively in defence of Iranian lives, Zarif wrote on Twitter. Women and children scattered along with once-marching Revolutionary Guard soldiers as heavy gunfire rang out at the parade in Ahvaz, the chaos captured live on state television.article continues below Trending Stories Throwback video shows how Vancouver changed from the 1930s to the 1990sThe best pumpkin patches to visit in the Lower Mainland Here's why Vancourier was judged Canada's best community newspaper website It's raining dead birds in Metro Vancouver The region's Arab separatists, once only known for nighttime attacks on unguarded oil pipelines, claimed responsibility for the brazen assault. The attack came as rows of Revolutionary Guardsmen marched down Ahvaz's Quds, or Jerusalem, Boulevard. Journalists and onlookers turned to look toward the first shots, then the rows of marchers broke as soldiers and civilians sought cover under sustained gunfire. It was one of many around the country marking the start of Iran's long 1980s war with Iraq, commemorations known as the Sacred Defence Week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian alliance: The Trump administration in September announced the most recent restrictions, which affect citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen -- and some Venezuelan government officials and their families, according to CTV. They are to go into effect Oct. 18. The lawsuits were filed Monday in federal courts in New York and Maryland. One lawsuit, filed Monday night in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Maryland on behalf of the Iranian Alliance Across Borders and six individuals, argues that restricting travel for citizens of predominantly Muslim countries violates the U.S. Constitution. This erosion of fundamental American values must stop, said Shayan Modarres, legal counsel for the National Iranian American Council, one of the groups that filed the lawsuit. Iranian Americans, and other affected communities, have had to familiarize themselves with ambiguous new laws and policies every few months because of this president's obsession with fulfilling a flawed campaign promise to ban Muslims from the United States. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Iranian Passport Dept: Last week the Iranian embassy in Ottawa was shut down as Canada cut off diplomatic ties, according to CBC. Like most Iranians on campus, Hosseinzadeh is a landed immigrant. His parents came to P.E.I. through the Provincial Nominee Program. Like other landed immigrants, however, he still carries an Iranian passport, and he now has nowhere in Canada to renew it and dozens of Iranian students at UPEI are concerned about the state of relations between Canada and Iran, and how they themselves could be affected. Visiting family at home in Iran could be more difficult for UPEI student Amir Hosseinzadeh now that Canada has cut off diplomatic relations. "It really was shocking news, first of all. We didn't expect to hear that," said student Amir Hosseinzadeh, President of the UPEI Iranian Society, which has 30 members. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Alidad Mafinezam Dept: Now there are talks underway between the foreign ministry and the federal immigration department to address the effects that a devalued Iranian currency and a ban on financial transactions are having on Iranian-Canadians, according to The Star. The issue here is what are the unintended side effects and collateral damage to people who are here precisely because they don t want to deal with these folks in Tehran, said Alidad Mafinezam, a director with the Iranian Canadian Congress and oTTAWA Canada s sanctions against Iran were meant to stop Tehran s ability to build nuclear weapons, but they are also having a devastating impact on Canada s large Iranian diaspora, community leaders say. It s a frustrated community in some cases desperate that has been waylaid by the squeeze on their homeland. Many say the problems could have been avoided if Ottawa had consulted them before pressing ahead with the sanctions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

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.

Iranian-Canadians: While some Iranian-Canadians want regime change in Tehran and oppose Ottawa shift to normalized relations, most expatriates endorse the Trudeau government new policy, according to several observers, according to Globe and Mail. They say Canada Iranian community, estimated at more than 250,000 once recent immigration is factored in, includes a sizable number of newcomers who still have deep family and business ties to Iran. They were the collateral damage to these policies. They felt unduly punished by the sanctions, which were meant to press the Islamic republic to suspend its nuclear weapons program. One of the sources of greatest frustration was the sudden closing of Canadian bank accounts due to Ottawa economic sanctions against Iran. In practical terms, Canada decision to break off diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012 meant Iranian-Canadians had to travel to Washington, D.C., where Iran maintains an interests section, for routine services such as renewing a passport. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tanavoli: I just continue doing my artwork, according to Brandon Sun. And this artwork, it was never, ever before questioned."Tanavoli said that on July 2, officials at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport took his Iranian passport when he tried to board a flight for speaking engagements at the British Museum and Asia House in London. I am not a political man. He posted on Facebook that he tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue at Iran main passport office. Tanavoli son said Iranian officials returned his father passport several days ago, which allowed him to fly to Canada. Tanavoli said last week that Iranian officials had received a complaint that his art work was "disturbing public opinion" and "spreading lies," which he dismissed as "baseless." But after returning to Canada he said he wasn't sure the reason for his being detained. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tanavoli: I just continue doing my artwork, according to Metro News. And this artwork, it was never, ever before questioned."Tanavoli said that on July 2, officials at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport took his Iranian passport when he tried to board a flight for speaking engagements at the British Museum and Asia House in London. I am not a political man. He posted on Facebook that he tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue at Iran main passport office. Tanavoli son said Iranian officials returned his father passport several days ago, which allowed him to fly to Canada. Tanavoli said last week that Iranian officials had received a complaint that his art work was "disturbing public opinion" and "spreading lies," which he dismissed as "baseless." But after returning to Canada he said he wasn't sure the reason for his being detained. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian researcher: Nima Enayati was turned away last week when he tried to fly to New York from Italy, where he's working on a Ph.D. Enayati says, It feels great finally I'm here, according to Guelph Mercury. He says he acted quickly when he saw a judge rule against President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive order suspending America's refugee program and halting immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. An Iranian researcher who had been prevented from coming to the United States to do research at Stanford University has arrived safely at New York's Kennedy Airport. Enayati is on a visa for three months to conduct research at Stanford working on robotics that will help make surgeries less invasive and cheaper for patients. 9 25 p.m. The Los Angeles Times reports Sara Yarjani was among those caught in a confusing legal limbo after Trump signed the order Jan. 27, about seven hours before Yarjani landed in Los Angeles on a flight from Oslo. An Iranian graduate student who was denied entry into the United States under President Donald Trump's travel ban has returned to America after a judge halted the order. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian researcher: Nima Enayati was turned away last week when he tried to fly to New York from Italy, where he's working on a Ph.D. Enayati says, It feels great finally I'm here, according to Hamilton Spectator. He says he acted quickly when he saw a judge rule against President Donald Trump's Jan. 27 executive order suspending America's refugee program and halting immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. An Iranian researcher who had been prevented from coming to the United States to do research at Stanford University has arrived safely at New York's Kennedy Airport. Enayati is on a visa for three months to conduct research at Stanford working on robotics that will help make surgeries less invasive and cheaper for patients. 9 25 p.m. The Los Angeles Times reports Sara Yarjani was among those caught in a confusing legal limbo after Trump signed the order Jan. 27, about seven hours before Yarjani landed in Los Angeles on a flight from Oslo. An Iranian graduate student who was denied entry into the United States under President Donald Trump's travel ban has returned to America after a judge halted the order. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Iranian rock band: NEW YORK, N.Y. - A gunman was carrying about 100 rounds of ammunition in five magazines when he set out on a bloody rampage through a Brooklyn apartment, killing two brothers who played in an Iranian rock band and another musician, police said Tuesday. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Records show the Spanish-made assault weapon was purchased by someone else at an upstate New York shop that went out of business in 2006, said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. People stand near a row house, center, that was the location of a murder-suicide in the Brooklyn section of New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. A musician shot and killed two members of an Iranian indie rock band and a third musician early Monday, and wounded a fourth person at their apartment before killing himself on the roof, police and the group's manager said. AP Photo/Seth Wenig Ali Akbar Mohammadi Rafie fired several rounds early Monday before he used his rifle to kill himself on the roof the apartment building where four members of the band Yellow Dogs lived together, police said. Afterward, investigators recovered 81 unfired rounds, some of them in magazines stashed in a guitar case found on an adjoining rooftop. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tanavoli: I just continue doing my artwork, according to The Chronicle Herald. And this artwork, it was never, ever before questioned." Tanavoli said that on July 2, officials at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport took his Iranian passport when he tried to board a flight for speaking engagements at the British Museum and Asia House in London. I am not a political man. He posted on Facebook that he tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue at Iran main passport office. Tanavoli son said Iranian officials returned his father passport several days ago, which allowed him to fly to Canada. Tanavoli said last week that Iranian officials had received a complaint that his art work was "disturbing public opinion" and "spreading lies," which he dismissed as "baseless." But after returning to Canada he said he wasn't sure the reason for his being detained. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he hopes one day Iran will be "free from tyranny," and until then Canada will be a place of refuge for Iranians. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The prime minister called Nowruz, the Iranian new year, "a time of renewal and rebirth." Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at a Canadian Iranian Foundation Nowruz event in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday March 21, 2015. THE Darryl Dyck Harper delivered opening remarks Saturday night in Vancouver to a large audience at the Canadian Iranian Foundation 10th Annual Nowruz Gala. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian father: We have an affinity and understanding of the Canadian Indigenous people, their history, their culture, said Sharifi, who was born to an Arab mother and an Iranian father and spent the first part of her life in southwestern Iran, according to National Observer. Some of my feelings and closeness and understanding comes from my own personal experience as someone who grew up in a minority ethnic group in a developing country. Seven years after founding the Arctic Inspiration Prize, Arnold Witzig and Simi Sharifi are handing over what they say is their entire fortune to a trust fund that distributes millions of dollars every year to northern groups whose work improves the quality of life for their community members. ; As immigrants to Canada going back more than 30 years, Sharifi said, the couple wanted to focus their philanthropic efforts on their adopted homeland and its northern Indigenous people, whose resilience and culture they deeply respect. The Arctic Inspiration Prize was established in 2012 and offers financial support to groups working to benefit the Canadian Arctic, its people and Canada as a whole. The recipients were announced Wednesday night in Ottawa at the Northern Lights Business and Cultural Showcase.A youth category was included this year for the first time, awarding up to 100,000 each to as many as seven applicants. Eight teams shared more than 2.4 million this year, including a 1-million top prize for a land-based healing program to help at-risk Inuit, First Nation and Metis peoples in Yellowknife and surrounding communities in the Northwest Territories. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian man: The case in question pertains to an application for permanent residency made in 1994 by Morteza Momenzadeh Tameh, an Iranian man who was admitted to Canada as a refugee, according to CBC. In 2001, officials deemed him inadmissible due to his past involvement in an organization in his home country that until 2012 was on Canada's list of terrorist entities. The decision from Chief Justice Paul Crampton also makes it clear the minister is obliged to make decisions in a reasonable time frame, no matter how busy he is. Read the Federal Court's ruling PDF Libyan man's appeal rejected in fight to stay in Canada Tameh made what is called an application for ministerial relief, which is an appeal to the minister of public safety for an exception. Since then, there have been four more ministers and not one of them has made a decision. Former public safety minister Stockwell Day refused to grant relief in 2007, but the next year a judge ruled Day had not been fully apprised of all relevant facts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

The Iranian Parliament Dept: Canada is the host of this year's assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union IPU , the 100th anniversary of its membership in an organization that predates the United Nations, according to Vancouver Sun. However, government sources say each applicant will be evaluated individually, and their memberships in different organizations examined. The Iranian Parliament includes some members of cultural and religious minorities, including one Persian Jew, Zoroastrians and Catholics and oTTAWA - A month after their nation's diplomats were turfed from Canada, members of the Iranian Parliament have applied for visas to attend an international conference in Quebec City. Given that Ottawa recently listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, it's unknown whether the Canadian government will issue visas to the parliamentarians. Citizenship and Immigration Canada will not comment on its cases because of privacy laws. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Iranian Diplomat Dept: Joergen Loevdal, the Norwegian attorney, says the diplomat, who he declined to name, defected from the Iranian Embassy in Oslo in December, and sought help from his Humlen & Rieber-Mohn law office, which specializes in immigration law, according to Montreal Gazette. Loevdal says policies of Iran's government are leading Iranians, including diplomats, to join foreign-based opposition groups and oSLO - A lawyer says an Iranian diplomat in Norway is seeking asylum in the Nordic country. Loevdal told The Associated Press on Friday the case is now under the jurisdiction of the Norwegian immigration authority, which declined to comment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Jian Ghomeshi: But now, some are feeling a sense of sadness and betrayal amid widening allegations against him of sexual violence, and his firing as host of Q, one of the CBC most popular radio shows. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "We wanted his success to be our success. Every time he threw in a badly pronounced Farsi word on air on Q was like a coup. Every time he had Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani on the show, it was a celebration for our community." To many Iranian-Canadians, Jian Ghomeshi has long been their community brightest star, as he took great pride in his ethnic heritage and happily stepped into the spotlight at events and fundraisers. "He was an icon for so many of us in the Iranian community, particularly those of us who have any interest in media," said Sima Sahar Zerehi, a journalist, teacher and human rights activist. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Elina Azari: A month ago, the 26-year-old native from Tehran followed the treks of other queer refugees stranded in Turkey and joined the growing Iranian community for a new life in what some of them call Tehranto, according to The Star. I d heard a lot of good things about Toronto and how its better than any other countries in welcoming people , said Azari, a former translator and photographer, who self-identifies as a lesbian and While other Muslims pay homage to the holy city of Mecca , Elina Azari worships Toronto, the gay mecca for queer Iranians. Since 2012, more than 200 queer Iranian refugees have resettled to Canada from Turkey through Ottawas government-sponsored refugee program most of them in Toronto for its diverse community and growing Iranian diasporas at large. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.