If You Think Canada Giving Iran the Finger Is Going to Curtail the Khomeinists' Activities Here, You're One Mighty Silly Infidel

To rewrite Emma Lazarus to capture what follows: Give me your rich, your Khomeinist, your arrogant Twelvers yearning to hedge their bets via a coveted Canadian passport:

While most Iranian immigrants in Canada came here specifically to get away from the Iranian government, lately, many upper class regime-linked Iranians are establishing second homes and acquiring citizenship here. They typically spend most of their time in Iran, while their wives and children live and study here.

“It is ironic that while [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad condemns ‘western imperialism,’ his inner circle has quietly established itself in Canada to enjoy ill-gotten fortunes with impunity,” wrote McGill international law professor Payam Akhavan in a Toronto Star column last year.

Ironically, "ironic" is not the word I would use for it. Cunning and/or diabolical and/or chilling, more like. Also: what's the point of severing diplomatic ties to Iran while opening your doors to--and allowing your country to be used as a crash pad by--Khomeinists both rich and poor alike?

Update: In homage to their crash pad, the "inner circle" sing a tune made famous by one of Canada's most beloved chick singers (and know this, Khomeinists--no one puts Joni in a niqab):

Yesterday A-jad was bloviatin'.
Rantin' 'bout the "Zionist entity."
Promised that that "cancer" would be wiped out
In a feat of Shia oncology.
And the passports
They go round and round
And his inner circle now can here be found.
You're captive to a coterie of cons.
We won't go back, even though we're rich,
To the place from whence we came
And you'll never put an end to our circle game...

 

Update: Iranians setting down roots in Canada have been "rigorously screened" for links to the regime, claims Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Guess that "inner circle" somehow managed to slip through the screen.

 

 

Update: Here are a few other Khomeinists--local celebrants of the hundreds upon hundreds who showed up to participate in the Ayatollah's annual Al Quds Day 2012 held on the grounds of Queen's Park--who seem to have slipped through the "rigorous" screening process. (Hey, Jason: there seems to be a hole the size of an elephant in our "screen.")