A former executive of the Tehran State Company was prevented from entering Canada on the grounds that he was the upper member of the Iranian regime.
In a decision rendered on Thursday, the Federal Court confirmed the government’s decision to deny the entry to Mohammadreza Mazloumiaboukheili.
The 64 -year -old man asked for a visa to visit his son in Ontario, but he was refused on the grounds that he was part of a regime engaged in terrorism and rights violations.
The court’s decision, which rejected its appeal, marks a success for the Canadian government’s efforts to keep Iranian officials outside the country.
Almost three years ago, the government of the minister at the time, Justin Trudeau, prohibited high -level members of the Iranian Abusive Iranian regime of Canada.
Since then, the Canada Border Services Agency has struggled to expel the two dozen suspicious officials who live in the country.
Only one was returned to Iran and the board of directors of immigration refugees refused to make the expulsion orders in four other cases.
But the immigration authorities have managed to prevent nearly 200 alleged high -ranking Iranian regime from entering Canada in the first place.
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Mazloumioukheili is the last to have his visa reject before the court, the judge rejecting his complaints concerning the treatment of his case as “without foundation”.
Although he visited Canada twice before, it was before Ottawa accepts his policy targeting those who serve in the highest levels of the Islamic Republic.
His latest request was met by a letter that thanked her for his “interest in coming to Canada” but informed him that he was unacceptable because of his government role.
According to Global News Government files, Mazloumioukheili was director of operations at the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company.
The oil company, where Mazloumioukheili worked for a decade, belongs to the Iranian government and reports to the deputy minister of the Iranian ministry of oil.
Oil is a key revenue for Iran, which sponsors the terrorist groups of Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen, and has provided drones for the Russia War in Ukraine.
The theocracy also targets criticisms in Canada, including activists, journalists and former deputy Irwin Cotler, which the police warned against an assassination plot.
While Mazloumiboukheili argued that he was only an “intermediary director” of the company, the CBSA said that he was only two rows withdrawn from the Minister.
Mazloumioukheili wrote in an affidavit that he was surprised to receive a letter advising his visa, and had told his lawyers to appeal.
But the court noted “no error” in immigration, refugees and citizenship of Canada, the treatment by the officer of his failed visa request.
“The officer’s decision is reasonable, both in his reasoning and with regard to proof of the role of the applicant as a framework in a regime that engages or has engaged in terrorist activities and systematic human rights violations,” the judge wrote.
“The submissions of the applicant according to which the officer has made speculative assumptions or unjustified conclusions is without merit, just like the many other submissions that the applicant attacked the decision.”
Contacted by e-mail, Mazloumioukheili did not respond to a request for a due date.
Iranian Canadians have long requested better screening for immigration security to prevent members of the Iranian diet from using Canada as a refuge.
As of September 4, 2025, 23 Iranians who would have held high -level posts in the regime were found alive in Canada, according to government figures.
But only three expulsion orders have been issued so far, and four cases have not won the approval of the Immigration and Refugees Commission.
Global News reported on Monday that the CISR refused to approve the expulsion of AFSHIN PIRNON, the former director of the Iranian road department.
However, government figures also show that the IRCC canceled 198 visas under the sanctions.
Not later that on September 18, the agency sent a letter to an Iranian visa seeker advising him that he is not authorized in Canada as a former member of the main regime.
Stewart.bell@globalnews.ca
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