More than 100 Iranian-Canadians call for party probe of Conservative nomination race

More than 100 Iranian-Canadians sent a letter to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday calling for an investigation of the party's handling of allegations of Iranian regime interference in an Ontario riding nomination race.Lawyer and human rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz says he believes agents of Iran's regime amplified disinformation about him online online to derail his Conservative nomination campaign in the riding of Richmond Hill.

"While I wish the party well, I would be lying if I said I was not disappointed with their approach to this issue," Shahrooz wrote in his media statement on February 22.Spy agency investigating 'credible' death threats from Iran against individuals in Canada The Iranian-Canadians who signed the letter are calling for a meeting with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

"As people who observe the Iranian regime's behaviour online, we are certain that the amplification was inorganic and completely consistent with the behaviour of the regime's so-called 'Cyber Army,'" the letter says. Thomas Juneau, an associate professor of international affairs at the University of Ottawa, said Iran's security and intelligence community is "extremely active online" and employs both human agents and bots to target dissidents abroad by amplifying social media posts that denigrate them.

Conservative Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari — herself a prominent Canadian critic of the Iranian regime — circulated that social media post alleging a link between MEK and Shahrooz's campaign. "In the span of two weeks, my name trended twice on Twitter," he said. "There is no reason why a relatively unknown candidate in a relatively obscure race for a nomination in a 905 riding needs to organically get that kind of attention."He said he's seen scores of Farsi social media posts about him, some of which have received hundreds of thousands of views. He alleges the attention was "manufactured by a foreign state.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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