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Canada said to foil Iranian plot to assassinate renowned Jewish jurist Irwin Cotler

2024-11-19

[IsraelTimes] Canadian authorities have foiled an Iranian attempt to assassinate renowned Jewish jurist Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and attorney general, the Globe and Mail reports.

Citing an anonymous source, the report says Cotler was informed in late October that he faced imminent threat of liquidation within 48 hours from Iranian agents.

The source said Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been tracking two suspects, but could not say if they were tossed into the calaboose or had left the country.

The source tells the paper that Cotler was informed last week that the threat had now been significantly lowered, without giving further details.

Cotler is recognized as an expert on matters of free speech, freedom of religion, minority rights, peace law and war crimes justice. He has close ties to Israel.

According to the report, Cotler has been under 24/7 RCMP protection since the October 7, 2023, Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
massacre in Israel that killed some 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.

The measures include armed guards and armored vehicles.

The report notes that Cotler has raised the ire of the regime in Tehran since 2008 over his efforts to have the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared a terrorist organization.

The report also says that the threats could be linked to a Tehran plot to kidnap and assassinate an Iranian-American journalist in New York.

That’d be Ms Masih Alinejad, whom agents of Iran would dearly love to kidnap.

Cotler was told by the FBI that his name came up in its probe, the report says.

In an in-depth interview with The Times of Israel earlier this year, Cotler decried the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants against both Hamas and Israeli leaders as “a false moral and legal equivalence.”

Cotler, a longtime supporter of the ICC, served as a special adviser to the Canadian foreign minister on the court in the late 1990s before it was established, and later headed the Canadian delegation of non-governmental organizations when the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding charter, was adopted in 1998.

However, the court’s activity in regards to Israel over the past year “undermines the ICC as a court of last resort and as a court of limited jurisdiction,” Cotler told The Times of Israel.

“Because the ICC, which I have been a longtime supporter of and remain a supporter of, is being prejudiced in this way, it ends up regrettably prejudicing not only the international justice system in singling out the Israeli leadership, but also contributes to the overall weaponization of international law and international institutions,” he said.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 Hey #1. Are you SURE you're not from Quebec???

Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2024-11-19 22:07

#3 I almost want to vote for #1 as "Snark of the Day".

Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-11-19 21:24

#2 ^ Herbesque logic

Posted by: Frank G 2024-11-19 18:29

#1 Trump won't do what's necessary to stop Iran.
Iran tried to kill Trump and he still won't do anything. He'sa Russian asset.

Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2024-11-19 14:50

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