The RCMP has told former justice minister Irwin Cotler that a plot by agents of Iran to assassinate him was foiled.

Report says former justice minister was informed last month that he faced imminent threat of assassination by Iranian agents, with threat level since lowered The post Canada said to foil Iranian plot to assassinate renowned Jewish jurist Irwin Cotler appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Canadian authorities thwart an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister who has been a strong critic of Tehran.