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Kazemi son claims Canada gov’t corrupt, accomplices of Iran, tried to buy his silence; CBC: “hmm”

The government of Canada is “totally corrupt”, and they are “accomplices of Iran”, and they have offered to pay him off with “millions of dollars, just to shut the case off”.  So says Stephan Hachemi, the French-born immigrant son of Iranian-Canadian Zahra Kazemi who was murdered in Iran by government authorities four years ago.  Iran has announced a new investigation

The state-run CBC Newsworld news anchor, David Gray, caught the part about the millions in supposed Canadian government pay-off to him right away.  “Sorry—who offered you millions of dollars?” he asked incredulously… 

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Hachemi repeats: “The government of Canada—just to shut the case up basically—to say that—well, you know, this is justice”. 

David Gray: Hm.

[Yes—that’s it.]

Hachemi: You know I mean there is a lot to say about the government of Canada. I’m not sure you have the time for that—this is a really disguising government”.

David Gray:  Stephan you’ve said it!  And you’ve sent your message!  I want to … thank you for joining us…

[Yes—that’s it.]

It certainly seemed worthy of a little more probing than that to me.  If an offer of millions in pay-off cash to “shut off the case” actually happened, it matters.  And it also matters who offered that cash:  Liberals or Conservatives. 

In a 2004 article, the state-run CBC reported that Iran offered him some “blood money” ($12,000).  They seemed to look into that quite a bit: 

…Earlier Sunday, Hachemi rejected about $12,000 of “blood money” Tehran has offered as compensation for his mother’s murder.

Under Iranian law, compensation for families of murder victims is set at $24,000 for a man, and about half that for a woman.

The money comes from an individual if that person is convicted; the government pays if no one is found responsible.

“By acquitting this guy and paying some blood money, they say the case is over … but it’s clearly a coverup,” he said.

The Iranian court ordered the payment after acquitting Ahmadi.

News of the outcome didn’t surprise Hachemi. “The only justice we have come to expect from Iran is injustice,” he said.

I’d love to know why David Gray didn’t dare ask when this alleged Canadian cash offer was made, and by whom.  Maybe Gray simply didn’t believe Hachemi and felt sympathetic toward him due to the loss of his mother and chose not to pursue it for that reason.  But this is about truth, and facts, and matters of serious international import, to say nothing of domestic political import.  So while it is important to find out more, Gray strangely chose not to. 

 

—2005 blog entry on this story

 

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