Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he believes Canada will be able to designate a list of thousands of members of the Iranian regime who will be inadmissible to Canada within a matter of weeks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measures would affect 50 per cent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). So we're going to march with them, we're going to stand with them and we're going to do everything that we can to defend their human rights." Ongoing protests in Iran have been met with a brutal crackdown, with hundreds of people killed by security forces, human rights groups estimate. Children killed in protests: rights groupBarton also spoke on Sunday to Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights.

Source: CBC News October 16, 2022 20:07 UTC