Iran’s intelligence services may be behind recent attacks in Canada, according to a top-secret government report obtained by Global News.
The threat assessment said it was a “realistic possibility” that Iran had used local criminal networks to target Canada’s Jewish community.
The report said “actors who may be directed by Iranian Intelligence Services” were also suspected of threats to the Israeli and Iranian communities and interests.
The intelligence brief on violence in Canada linked to the Iran war was released to Global News under the Access to Information Act.
“The primary violent extremist threat in Canada with a nexus to the conflict remains a self-directed radicalized lone actor or small group unconnected to Iran,” it said.
“However, it is a realistic possibility that Iran is enabling criminal proxy actors to carry out attacks in Europe against Jewish community targets and that they have directed or enabled similar acts of criminal violence in Canada since the beginning of the conflict.”
The report by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC), which analyses threats to Canada’s national security, was dated April 2.
The document, as well as a second one on the same theme, was partly redacted and did not publicly identify which acts of violence in Canada it was referring to.
But it said a new organization called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya had claimed responsibility for attacks in Europe, including an arson at a London synagogue.
U.S. prosecutors have alleged that Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya is a front for Kata’ib Hizballah, a pro-Iran Shia militia based in Iraq.
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In May, the U.S. arrested a Kata’ib Hizballah member named Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi for allegedly directing attacks in Europe.
According to the allegations, Al-Saadi boasted that he was behind two attacks in Toronto — shootings at a synagogue and the U.S. consulate.
Toronto police have arrested several gunmen who were allegedly part of a crime network that was hired to open fire on the American consulate.
A Toronto officer, Const. Marc Pinizzotto, was shot dead during the investigation, which is examining more than two dozen shootings across the city.
The gunmen were hired through encrypted messaging applications and were required to record video of the incidents in order to receive payment, police said.
“What we are dealing with in this case and in other unrelated incidents, including shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools, is a recurring and similar modus operandi — criminals for hire,” Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said.
Police said they were investigating who was behind the shootings. The Secretary of State for Combatting Crime, Ruby Sahota, has blamed an unnamed “foreign entity.”
Canadian authorities have not publicly linked the case to Iran. But two intelligence reports released to Global News point to the possible role of Iranian intelligence.
“Since ITAC’s last update, alleged threats and suspicious activities directed at targets linked to Israeli, Iranian and Jewish community-linked individuals and interests in Canada continue, including from actors who may be directed by Iranian Intelligence Service,” it said.
Iran has a long history of attacking opponents in Western countries, and allegedly plotted to assassinate critics in Canada, including former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler.
On June 10, Canada joined its allies in condemning “lethal plotting” against Iranian dissidents and Jewish community members by Iran.
The joint statement blamed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization, the Quds Force, and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
“The relationship between Iranian security services and international and local criminal groups is long standing,” the statement said.
It also condemned attacks across Europe that were claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya “and supported by their intermediaries.”
Last week, Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Canada had no plans to restore diplomatic relations with Iran that Ottawa severed in 2012.
Her comments followed remarks by Prime Minister Mark Carney that not having embassies in Iran and Venezuela put Canada “at a disadvantage.”
And how are these folks able to do this? Just like the India gov and the Sikhs have their little war going here as well. How does this happen?
Because of a dirty, corrupt, government willing to risk our great country for a few votes because they know that Canadians h*te them and want them gone. Promise the immigrant the world, for a vote in exchange. The Liberal Way, can’t win it honestly, corrupt it, take it, buy it.
Remember folks, this government supports Israel and the g*nocide of Palestine too.
Which means in lie beral speak, let’s import more of them as Canazuela descends into the toilet.
Serves chairman Mark Mao Carnage’s agenda perfectly.
Replace these Iranian terrorists organisations planing and paying for attacks on the Jewish community, with White Supremecists doing the same to Muslim communities, and you can bet Global wouldn’t have needed to use the Access to Information laws to get this infomration. The federal government would have been briefing Canadians on this in real time. Let’s call these heinous acts what they are: terrorist attacks on Canadian soil
Since embassies are “foreign soil”, why are we concerned about what happens to them? Let them reap the results of the violence they sow — as long as no Canadians are injured.
Jewish Canadians are victims of 70% of religious crimes in Canada. We must all condemn that and hold those acvountable. Simeaultaneously, we need to hold Israel accountable for the crimes it’s committing in Lebanon and Palestine.
These attacks are deplorable and unacceptable. However, the state of Israel must be held to account for its illegal actions in Lebanon and Palestine which have resulted in much death and suffering.
@Anonymous zionist. Your an Epstein enjoyer , you support the murder of children. Israel is an Apartheid terror state. Sympathy is running out for the professional victims who attack their own people. Zionism is nothing but pure vile disgusting worship of Satan from what I can see. You cry the victim yet your the abusers. The world has had enough, your not fooling anyone anymore, the jig is up.
@Abolish The Zionist terror state
If you really want to know just how much you and others in the west are being duped into supporting the Islamists just google the Muslim Brotherhood Manifesto. The MBM was discovered in the holy land trials of the 1990’s and is specific in how it will destroy the west by mass migration, using our universities and political and social institutions against us all while using our free money, housing and using our free speech and freedoms against us, All of which has come to pass, and to bring down the west from within and to then establish a world wide caliphate with Islam and Sharia Law as the only society allowed. ALL who oppose will be imprisoned or killed. Especially those who are gay or who have supported the Islamists as Useful Idiots during the course of the Islamic subversion in the west.
You should read it, it is very interesting to know just what your current “friends” intend for you.
The sooner all Abrahamic religions fade into obscurity, the safer we’ll all be…
Hey global news. Clean up this swamp you call a message board. I feel like I am reading a newspaper from 1939 Germany.
Canada is no more. Politicians in power have made sure of that especially the last 13 years of Trudeau rule. Welcome terrorists to Canada and made Canadian citizens to boot. A good reason to stop giving new immigrants to Canada citizenship. Such a ridiculous thing to do to begin with because people DO NOT change where their loyalties lie even when they move to other countries. FACT.
I see it didnt take the terrorist wannabes long to.show up
Always good to know who the enemy is
Whom benefits from these attacks? Many times this has happened. in end gets proven to be Israel or Jewish community themselves, but that conveniently never makes the news
Our pandering to all will be the end of us.
Canada hosts a number of former or alleged senior Iranian regime officials (or their close family), though comprehensive public lists are limited due to privacy laws, ongoing immigration proceedings, and security concerns.
Why not, the only question these criminals are asking when declaring refugee status is ‘Will you vote Liberal’? If Yes then your welcomed into Canada.
I’m a white, canadian born man. The world is praying for Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and all who have suffered from Zionists terrorism. The World is praying that Iran does to Israel what Israel has done to Gaza. May justice be served for rach and every innocent souls they took from the world and be punished harshly for their disgusting war crimes.
this is what happens when you let a bunch of trash into Canada with open arms, don’t let any of them in to Canada on both sides then there would be no problems
Oh look! Russian troll Peter Belinski is back this time posing as “Dave.”
He’s a coward who won’t enlist for Ukraine but pisses off Canadians instead so we take Ukraine’s side. Not too bright.
Thanks for bringing your problems here!
Is anyone really surprised that the Islamists supporting Iran may be the same ones that have been out on our streets chanting from the river to the sea along with the useful idiots of the left who are blinded by their stupidity into supporting their eventual own demise. The Iranian terrorists hiding within Canada and calling for the eradication of Israel are the same ones that will kill their useful idiots once their usefulness to their cause is finished.
IRAN & Russia (Maybe other terrorist countries) have “spies”/terrorists right here in Canada.
My name is Dave and I post stupid comments everyday because I have no life. I also like peeping in windows
What horzezhit.
“May have,” “possibly”…
If anything, peeps are angry at Netanyaoo for the Gaza genocide.
Mark Carney and Anita Anand welcomed IRGC, Hamas to Canada. Why should Canada expect anything but threats to its law-abiding people?
“May” have orchestrated the violence against the Jewish community?
I would worry about “criminal speznatz”and the russian mafia controlling organized crime.
Wow. This is a load of bollocks. How does Iran benefit from this behaviour? Not at all. Who does benefit? Israel. Who are the kings of false flag attacks? Israel. Absolute garbage propaganda. Seriously, shameful reporting.
CSIS can report all they want. The RCMP do nothing.
The LPC will just ignore it like they have every.other intelligence report
They only time they even pay attention is when it involves the far right and they can use it to manipulate their idiots