Iranian regime member deported from Canada, CBSA confirms

A senior Iranian regime official has been deported from Canada following a judge's decision to dismiss his final appeal, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Syed Salman Samani, Iran's former deputy interior minister and official spokesperson, was removed from the country. The CBSA confirmed the deportation, noting that Samani is the second regime official expelled under a 2022 policy barring high-ranking Iranian officials from entering Canada.

Samani, a "career politician" in Iran from 2007 to 2021, was a target of the Immigration and Refugee Board's deportation order in 2024, which the Federal Court upheld. The judge ruled that Samani's claims of fearing harm if returned to Iran were unlikely to materialize and that Canada's interests in expelling those responsible for human rights abuses outweighed them.