The greatest threat to Canadians emerging from the war in Iran is domestic terrorism.

While all Canadians are vulnerable given that Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of global terrorism, two groups are the most vulnerable.

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They are Canadians of Iranian origin who oppose the Islamist dictatorship in Iran, and Jews.

Attacks on both groups have already started just one week into the war and the longer it goes, the greater the threat will become.

Within hours of the death of Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28 following the joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, the Saliwan Boxing Club in Richmond Hill, owned by Salar Gholami, a prominent Iranian human rights activist, was sprayed with 17 bullets.

Three synagogues have already been hit by gunfire since the war began – Beth Avraham Yoseph in Thornhill and Shaarei Shomayim in Toronto, sometime between March 6-7, and Temple Emanu-El in North York, on March 2.

No one was hurt but we all know this is just the........

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