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DESIGNATED TERRORISTS - Conscription Into Revolutionary Guards Haunts Iranian Dual Nationals Decades

Writer's picture: Michelle JennerMichelle Jenner

As he took his seat in an interrogation room at Calgary International Airport, Moe Toghraei felt little cause for alarm. A wastewater management engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin, he had returned to Canada, where his wife and children lived, for a few weeks last October for a routine visit. Now, he was heading back to Wisconsin for work.


U.S , Calgary International Airport, Canada
Moe Toghraei drinks tea at the Lotus Cafe, a Persian restaurant, in Edmonton, Alberta

Travelers to the U.S. from the Calgary airport go through customs and passport control at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoint at their point of departure, in Canada, before boarding. Toghraei, 53, a Canadian citizen of Iranian background, had gone through this process many times before without incident.

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