🇨🇦 Canada deports another senior member of Iranian regime

The absurd part is not that Canada finally deported Syed Salman Samani. It is that a former deputy interior minister of Iran, by his own account a man with power and influence over government decisions, managed to arrive here in October 2021 and stay until a judge finally shut the door. Even now, this is only the second expulsion under a 2022 ban on senior regime figures, as reported. This is what Ottawa calls border control: let them in first, then spend years pretending removal is some heroic act.

The real story is state weakness dressed up as moral seriousness. Canada had to be told that a man tied to a ministry overseeing police accused of widespread killing of civilians maybe should not treat this country as a backup residence. Two deportations, 181 investigations, 37 identified, 19 proceedings in progress, and an estimated 750 linked individuals believed to be in Canada. Liberal managerialism in one sentence: grand declarations, microscopic enforcement, and Canadians left hosting the fallout.

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