O Centro Raoul Wallenbergof which Cotler is president, confirmed that he had been informed at the end of October imminent threats to the former minister’s life from Iranian agents.
Canadian authorities last week prevented an assassination attempt against former Justice Minister and human rights defender Irwin Cotler, which was allegedly orchestrated by Iran, an organization led by this lawyer reported on Monday.
O of which Cotler is president, confirmed that he had been informed at the end of October imminent threats to the former minister’s life from Iranian agentsconfirming information from the English-language newspaper The Globe and Mail.
However, does not “have information or details about possible arrests”highlighted Brandon Golfman, spokesperson for the organization, in an email to France-Presse (AFP).
Who is it Irwin Cotler?
It is 84-year-old Jewish lawyersupporter of Israel, was Minister of Justice from 2003 to 2006.
He attracted the ire of the Tehran regime due to his years-long campaign to have the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, included by Canada on its list of terrorist entities.
Irwin Cotler retired from political life in 2015, but remained very active in numerous associations that make campaign for human rights around the world.
already benefited from police protection just over a year ago, after the attacks on October 7, 2023 in Israel, perpetrated by commandos of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas infiltrated from the neighboring Gaza Strip.
According to the Cotler’s name also appeared in an investigation in the United States into the attempted assassination of Masih Alinejadan Iranian-American journalist and dissident in New York in 2022.
Questioned by AFP, a Spokesperson for the Canadian Minister of Public Safety did not make a statement. But the Canadian Parliament unanimously adopted a motion on Monday praising Cotler’s work and condemning “death threats against him orchestrated by agents of a foreign regime.”
Ottawa, which severed diplomatic relations with Iran more than ten years ago, has placed Revolutionary Guards on your blacklist in June, accusing the Islamist regime of showing “disdain for human rights” and wanting to “destabilize the international order”.
Cotler’s daughter, Michal Cotler-Wunsh, is a Israeli politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Israeli Parliament.
