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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Irwin Cotler responds to Iran’s assassination attempt on his life: ‘This has to serve as a wake-up call’
Description: It’s been an open secret for a year now: the esteemed Canadian human rights advocate, Irwin Cotler, 84, has been living under round-the-clock police protection in Montreal. But until recently, Cotler had heard only vague chatter about the source of the death threats.
A month ago, on Oct. 26, the RCMP warned Cotler to stay home, under guard, because he was in imminent danger—within the next 48 hours—of being murdered by agents tied to Iran’s terrorist regime. The news was kept out of the media until a Globe and Mail story appeared in Nov. 18. Cotler, the founder of the Raou...