Canadian woman missing in Iran and her family believes she’s been detained | 24CA News
A B.C. father is making a tearful plea to assist discover his lacking daughter, whom he believes is being detained in an Iranian jail.
Amir Bahraminia says his 35-year-old daughter, Behnoush, disappeared in Tehran alongside together with her companion Mathew Safari, often known as Majid, practically a yr and a half in the past.
“She is in trouble,” Bahraminia informed Global News, “I know she is in Iran. I haven’t heard her voice and I haven’t seen her.”
The couple left B.C. for Tehran in November 2021. Behnoush’s dad and mom say the pair deliberate to journey to the Persian Gulf Island of Kish. The household was in fixed contact with Behnoush and had a detailed relationship, however since touchdown in Tehran on Nov. 6, 2021, the household in Canada has heard nothing from them.
Behnoush had beforehand travelled to Iran to go to household with no points, her father stated.
There’s no document of Behnoush’s arrest or any prices, however the household says two sources in Iran, who they will’t determine for security causes, allege the regime is holding her in jail, on “super threats to national security.”
Her household says Behnoush, a Canadian-Iranian who lived in Metro Vancouver, was not a political individual. She was a supervisor at a spa in West Vancouver.
They say she loved spending time together with her household and had a level in psychology from Iran. She wished to begin over once more in her chosen area when she immigrated to Vancouver in 2013 however couldn’t attributable to language boundaries. Instead, her household says, Behnoush educated as an aesthetician and was dedicated to her job.
Safari, additionally Canadian-Iranian from Port Moody, had allegedly deliberate to purchase an house on Kish Island. Behnoush’s dad and mom say the house was being constructed by RoyalBox Group in Iran. Global News reached out to RoyalBox however the firm has no document of any buy.
Behnoush’s household additionally doesn’t know Safari’s whereabouts. His dad and mom are deceased, they are saying, and it isn’t identified if he has any household looking for him.
Global News reached out to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s workplace, which referred the query to officers at Global Affairs Canada, who stated they’re conscious and are gathering additional data to supply consular help.
The household notified Global Affairs Canada of their daughter’s mysterious disappearance final yr. In recorded cellphone conversations, Global Affairs confirms the contact occurred and in addition confirms it didn’t act after being made conscious of Behnoush’s disappearance. When a household consultant requested why Global Affairs stated it was ready for a name again that by no means occurred. A coverage, the household, says is senseless.
Since Behnoush’s father and mom battle with talking English, they’ve appointed realtor and household buddy Nima Sheihky as a consultant. He has been advocating for Behnoush.
“Behnoush is a Canadian citizen and the Government of Canada should follow my daughter’s case,” Bahraminia stated, in Farsi.
The final message the household acquired from Behnoush was a textual content she despatched her brother Mohammed on Nov. 5, 2021. She wrote “I’m not n Turkey” with a photograph of what her mom, Parvin Jalilian, says is the lodge the couple stayed at throughout their layover in Istanbul, Turkiye.
Mohammed says he appears over that textual content and questions what she meant by it. He believes Behnoush was attempting to ship a clue, and that she will need to have written it, he assumes, in haste.
Behnoush’s boarding cross reveals her on Turkish Airlines (TA) Flight 76 from Vancouver to Istanbul on Nov. 4, 2021 touchdown in Tehran on TA Flight 872 on Nov. 6 of that yr.
The Imam Khomeini Airport Police Authority supplied a doc to kinfolk of the Bahraminia household in Iran saying Behnoush was seen on the airport in Tehran on Nov. 9, 2021.
It’s unclear what occurred between Nov. 6 and 9 on the airport.
Standing within the now deserted downtown Vancouver condominium of his sister, Mohammad feels disappointment surrounded by Behnoush’s presence.
“All these things around here remind me of her. I always look at her bed. She’s not there, ” he stated, wiping tears off his face.
“The fact that after 15 months, they (Islamic Republic) haven’t told us what has happened, it shows me that she hasn’t done anything,” Mohammad added.
He says he needs he might return in time and warn his sister towards travelling to Iran.
Life for the Bahraminia household is on maintain. An open wound, they are saying, that simply received’t heal, till they create Behnoush again residence to Canada.
“We need help. Help to find out what happened to my daughter,” Amir Bahraminia stated.
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