{"id":843451,"date":"2026-08-03T01:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843451\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:20:34","slug":"ottawa-should-list-iran-backed-kataib-hezbollah-as-terrorist-group-poilievre-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843451\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa should list Iran-backed Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah as terrorist group: Poilievre | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785720034_496_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Thursday, June 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 2, 2026 | 3:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Conservative leader is calling on Ottawa to designate an Iran-backed militant group as a terrorist entity after one of its members was accused of contributing to an attack on a Canadian synagogue, as well as the March shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Poilievre says in a letter to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree that American authorities have found that Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah and its alleged commander directed attacks on Canadian soil.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi man who U.S. authorities have called a commander of the group, appeared in a Federal Court in Manhattan in May on allegations he plotted at least 18 terror attacks in Europe and North America in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Court heard two of those attacks took place in Canada \u2014 one against a synagogue and the other the shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto in March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Thursday, June 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-843451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}