Iranian general killed in airstrike honoured at tense Edmonton vigil
“We should all, as human beings, condemn the recent attacks that have happened,” said Masoud Shadnam, a professor at MacEwan University who spoke at the event.
Sunday night, two Iranian-Canadian men argued with the pro-Soleimani crowd gathered in Edmonton as Alberta Sheriffs watched from the front doors of the Legislature. "Canada has long been concerned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, led by Qasem Soleimani, whose aggressive actions have had a destabilizing effect in the region and beyond," Champagne said in the release on Friday.“Millions of people have been saved by this commander and this entity, this force, from the hands of ISIS and Al-Qaeda and the likes of those terrorists,” Shadnam said.
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