Canada spy agency says it foiled potentially 'lethal threats' by Iran
Posted on: Nov 14, 2025 00:05 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
canadian capital, - Canada's house servant sight bureau this yr foiled potentially lethal threats by Iran directed against people whom Tehran sees as enemies, the agency's head said in a rare speech on Thursday.
Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, also said his agents had blocked attempts by Russia to illegally acquire Canadian goods and technologies.
Rogers, appointed in February, spoke as he presented an annual update on security challenges facing Canada. CSIS directors seldom appear in public.
His comments were the first confirmation that the agency has intervened to protect Canada-based critics of Iran. In August, CSIS had merely said it was probing Iranian threats.
"In particularly alarming cases over the last year, we've had to reprioritize our operations to counter the actions of Iranian intelligence services and their proxies who have targeted individuals they perceive as threats to their regime," Rogers said.
"In more than one case, this involved detecting, investigating, and disrupting potentially lethal threats against individuals in Canada," he continued, without giving details.
Canada has particularly poor relations with Iran and cut off diplomatic ties in 2012. Last year Canada listed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, prompting condemnation from Tehran.
Canada is also a critic of Russia and its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Rogers said illicit Russian procurement networks were trying to illegally acquire Canadian goods and technologies.
"This year, CSIS took action to prevent this by informing several Canadian companies that Europe-based front companies seeking to acquire their goods were in fact connected to Russian agents," he said, adding that the companies took immediate measures to deny the Russians.
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