ooliiu@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoCanada awarded millions worth of contracts to the son of Iran’s vice-presidentglobalnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down13
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minus-squaredaannii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·18 days agoHe won $15,000 grant in 2015 for engineering applications. That’s not much. And also not unusual for innovation grants. I don’t see anything in that article saying he was doing anything in the last decade to build military weapons for Iran. And also that he was deported anyway because Canada decided to revoke many Middle Eastern residencies. This seems like made up outrage that an Iranian engineer was allowed to work in Canada.
He won $15,000 grant in 2015 for engineering applications.
That’s not much. And also not unusual for innovation grants.
I don’t see anything in that article saying he was doing anything in the last decade to build military weapons for Iran.
And also that he was deported anyway because Canada decided to revoke many Middle Eastern residencies.
This seems like made up outrage that an Iranian engineer was allowed to work in Canada.