🇨🇦 Former IRGC Commander Issued Canadian Visa, Turned Away Only After Landing in Toronto

Mehdi Taj, president of Iran's Football Federation and ex-intelligence commander with the IRGC — a federally designated terrorist entity since 2024 — was granted a visa and boarded a flight to Canada for a FIFA meeting. Border agents stopped him at Pearson only after he landed. Immigration Minister Lena Diab claims his travel docs were revoked mid-flight, but the damage was done: someone in Ottawa approved entry for a terrorist-linked official in the first place.

This is the second time in three years. In 2022, Trudeau's government privately arranged exemptions for Iran's soccer team even as public outrage mounted. The pattern is clear: virtue-signal publicly, enable quietly, and hope Canadians don't notice. Our immigration system isn't broken by accident — it's administered by people who either don't care about national security or actively undermine it.

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