The RCMP has told former justice minister Irwin Cotler that a plot by agents of Iran to assassinate him was foiled.As first reported by the Globe and Mail, the 84-year-old former Liberal MP was informed last month that a plot to assassinate him within 48 hours had been discovered.

OTTAWA — The House of Commons on Monday condemned an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler.

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 recently foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister who has been a strong critic of Tehran, Cotler’s organization said Monday. The 84-year-old was justice minister and attorney general from 2003 to 2006.

Canadian security forces last month foiled an Iranian assassination plot against Irwin Cotler, the Jewish former politician and human rights advocate, the country’s The Globe and Mail reported on Monday.

Irwin Cotler is a human rights lawyer, a member of Parliament, and former justice minister in a Liberal government, serving between 2003 and 2006.