{"id":360638,"date":"2026-07-04T03:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=360638"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:41:05","slug":"iran-could-have-directed-recent-attacks-in-canada-intelligence-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/iran-could-have-directed-recent-attacks-in-canada-intelligence-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran could have \u2018directed\u2019 recent attacks in Canada, intelligence report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran\u2019s intelligence services could also be behind recent attacks in Canada, in line with a top-secret government report obtained by Global News.<\/p>\n

The threat assessment said it was a \u201crealistic possibility\u201d that Iran had used local criminal networks to focus on Canada\u2019s Jewish community.<\/p>\n

The report said \u201cactors who could also be directed by Iranian Intelligence Services\u201d were also suspected of threats to the Israeli and Iranian communities and interests.<\/p>\n

The intelligence temporary on violence in Canada linked to the Iran war was released to Global News under the Access to Information Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first violent extremist threat in Canada with a nexus to the conflict stays a self-directed radicalized lone actor or small group unconnected to Iran,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNevertheless, it’s a sensible possibility that Iran is enabling criminal proxy actors to perform attacks in Europe against Jewish community targets and that they’ve directed or enabled similar acts of criminal violence in Canada because the starting of the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The report by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC), which analyses threats to Canada\u2019s national security, was dated April 2.<\/p>\n

The document, in addition to a second one on the identical theme, was partly redacted and didn’t publicly discover which acts of violence in Canada it was referring to.<\/p>\n

However it said a brand new organization called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya had claimed responsibility for attacks in Europe, including an arson at a London synagogue.<\/p>\n

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U.S. prosecutors have alleged that Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya is a front for Kata\u2019ib Hizballah, a pro-Iran Shia militia based in Iraq.<\/p>\n

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In May, the U.S. arrested a Kata\u2019ib Hizballah member named Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi<\/a> for allegedly directing attacks in Europe.<\/p>\n

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In response to the allegations, Al-Saadi boasted that he was behind two attacks in Toronto \u2014 shootings at a synagogue and the U.S. consulate.<\/p>\n

Toronto police have arrested several gunmen<\/a> who were allegedly a part of against the law network that was hired to open fire on the American consulate.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Toronto\u00a0officer, Const.\u00a0Marc Pinizzotto,\u00a0was shot dead throughout the investigation, which is examining greater than two dozen shootings across the town.<\/p>\n

The gunmen were hired through encrypted messaging applications and were required to record video of the incidents to be able to receive payment, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we’re coping with on this case and in other unrelated incidents, including shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools, is a recurring and similar modus operandi \u2014 criminals for hire,\u201d Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said.<\/p>\n

Police said they were investigating who was behind the shootings. The Secretary of State for Combatting Crime, Ruby Sahota, has blamed an unnamed \u201cforeign entity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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