Mona Ghassemi, president of the Iranian Canadian Congress, was at home in Montreal when she first heard about the Israeli strikes in Iran early Friday. She called her mother, learning her aunt and cousin in Iran awakened to the sounds of nearby missile blasts but were unharmed.
“Residential buildings were hit, and there were children among the killed. So this, of course, is very devastating,” Ms. Ghassemi said.
The Israeli military attack is reverberating 10,000 kilometres away as the Iranian diaspora in Canada reels from the sudden escalation of a long-simmering conflict.
No true Iranian … which voices is the Globe with?
Deliver what? A few missiles? Your senior commanders are dead, and Tehran is burning. And we’re only warming up.
Am Israel Chai dipshit https://t.co/yvrWDfBytv pic.twitter.com/N0wYTqApzU
— Cheryl E ️ (@CherylWroteIt) June 15, 2025
