This is an article from an American outlet abour Iran. Why is this in the Canada community?
Every media source has covered it. Some Canadians want to know what's happening in the world.
The Toronto Sun is a propaganda rag and offers nothing of value.
Ironic.
Wonder if this US owned media outlet is also highlighting each of the thousands of Iranians already killed indiscriminately by the states that are not Iran.
Canada is going to liberate them by sanctions leading to less ability of the country from preventing a genocide by the usa and israel and millions of people struggling to live a decent life
All the Canadian sanctions were in place before Trump attacked.
They added more sanctions after the war including sanctions on the drone and missile program. So that mean there is even double usage restriction which would affect civilian related activites
March 2026
Hmmm… thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’ll have to consider what I think about this later because I’m balls deep in cat memes :p
Hegseth said that they wouldn't stand for this and that the Trump regime were looking for their own candidate to execute first.
Omg
I fucking wish I lived in a world where this didn't sound realistic, in spite of it's absurdity.
Touché
I think there is only one first woman (Lady) 🤔
Shameful. I really hope Iranians can free themselves from this regime one day, soon.
Thst's the hope before the war. The new hope is that iran do not get genocided by israel and the usa
Iran should stop doing this
Iran is set to execute four people accused of participating in anti-government protests earlier this year.
Bita Hemmati is the first woman to be sentenced to death (by hanging) in Iran over anti-regime protests earlier this year.
Hemmati has been accused of numerous charges, including using explosives and weapons, throwing objects such as concrete blocks and bottles, and “harming stationed forces on-site,” according to a news release from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
The regime’s judiciary also listed “participating in protest gatherings,” “sending content with the aim of undermining security” and “chanting protest slogans” in line with “disrupting national security” and in connection with “hostile groups” as her crimes.
Hemmati’s husband Mohammadreza Majid Asl was also sentenced to death, along with two other men, Behrouz Zamaninezhad and Kourosh Zamaninezhad, both of whom lived in the same apartment building as the couple.
A fifth defendant in the case, Amir Hemmati, identified as a “relative” of the couple, was sentenced to five years of discretionary imprisonment on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security,” and another eight months behind bars for “propaganda against the regime.”
Forced confessions?
A source close to the family said the five were arrested in the same raid in Tehran, accused by Iran’s government of “operational action for the hostile government of the United States and hostile groups,” according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The agency claimed the five were “subjected to pressure” during their interrogations, noting concerns of possible forced confessions.
An execution date has not been released.
“The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the United Nations, relevant international bodies, and human rights defenders to take immediate action to save the lives of prisoners sentenced to death, especially political prisoners and those detained during the uprising,” the NCRI said in a statement.
What triggered protests?
The protests in Iran were sparked by a series of strikes by shopkeepers and market merchants in the Iranian capital in late December, which spread in the ensuing days across the city as residents, students and other groups joined forces in one of the largest protest movements Tehran has seen in recent years.
Thousands were either killed or injured, and tens of thousands more were arrested or detained as part of the regime’s crackdown.
Iranian authorities executed at least 1,639 people in 2025, the highest number since 1989, according to a joint report from Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty.
That amounts to an average of more than four executions a day, France 24 reported.
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