Iranian dissident Zahra Kamalfar and her family – the ones who had been trapped in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for over half a year – are finally receiving refugee status in Canada. They won’t have to go back to Iran. All of us who have been working on this case, however distantly, are over-joyed. Pajamas Media is the first place, that I know of, to have a report.
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Excellent news. Let’s hope Ms. Mizrahi and her family find a secure home in Canada, so she can continue her work against the clerical fascists in Tehran.
One has to wonder, though, why it took so long to get to this end. Where was the US State Department in this affair? Why wasn’t she offered refugee status in the US as a matter of course? For all the high-blown rhetoric of the Bush Administration since the Long War began about supporting democrats around the world, they’ve done disappointingly little in recent years to support Muslim dissidents.
Urk. I have no idea why I wrote “Mizrahi” instead of Kamalfarand . How embarrassing….
Anthony, as I understand, Kamalfar has a brother in Canada and wanted to go there as a first preference. If Canada did not work out, the US was apparently standing by to take her. Why this all took so long, however, I don’t know. We will try to find out.
Thanks for the information, Roger. A thought crossed my mind after posting that matters may have gone slowly to avoid annoying the Russian bear. Push them too hard and I can easily envision those renascent Czarists deporting Kamalfar and her family to Iran out of spite.