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Unease for Iranian-Canadians after shooting at Khameni critic’s gym
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Unease for Iranian-Canadians after shooting at Khameni critic’s gym

After the airstrikes that killed Ali Khamenei, Iranian-Canadian Salar Gholami went to a rally in a Toronto suburb to celebrate the downfall of a leader he fiercely opposed.Then, in the early hours of March 1, someone fired 17 shots at his boxing gym, which was empty at the time but is often full of children he teaches to fight.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The bullet holes, marked by numbered police tape, were still visible outside the building in Richmond Hill on a rainy morning three weeks after the shooting, which has drawn renewed attention to the alleged presence of Iranian government officials inside Canada, including members of the IRGC.Gholami is a physically imposing former competitive fighter aged 32 who describes himself as an activist within Canada’s large Iranian diaspora. He wants the Tehran government brought down.His gym includes multiple portraits of Reza Pahlavi, the US-based son of Iran’s last shah.Gholami told AFP

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