{"id":6248,"date":"2012-07-13T21:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T01:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2012-07-13T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T01:48:22","slug":"peter-mackays-wife-nazanin-afshin-jam-shocked-td-closing-accounts-of-iranian-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/peter-mackays-wife-nazanin-afshin-jam-shocked-td-closing-accounts-of-iranian-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter MacKay\u2019s wife Nazanin Afshin-Jam shocked TD closing accounts of Iranian Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nazanin-afshin-jam.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6249\" title=\"nazanin-afshin-jam\" src=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nazanin-afshin-jam-147x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nazanin-afshin-jam-147x300.jpeg 147w, https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nazanin-afshin-jam.jpeg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a>The Iranian-born wife of Defence Minister Peter MacKay says she is shocked at TD Canada Trust\u2019s decision to close a number of accounts belonging to Iranian Canadians without offering them a proper explanation.<\/p>\n<p>TD (TSX:TD) began notifying Iranian-Canadian clients in May that it would no longer provide them with banking services \u2014 in some cases referring to Ottawa\u2019s economic sanctions against the Tehran regime.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a dedicated human rights activist, says she believes the bank \u201cunintentionally misinterpreted\u201d the broad application of the sanctions, aimed at cracking down on Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they should have done more investigation rather than harming innocent Iranian Canadians,\u201d she said in an interview from her home in New Glasgow, N.S.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Iranian-Canadian community have expressed outrage at the bank\u2019s decision, saying they feel they\u2019re being treated as second-class citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian-born wife of Defence Minister Peter MacKay says she is shocked at TD Canada Trust\u2019s decision to close a number of accounts belonging to Iranian Canadians without offering them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/peter-mackays-wife-nazanin-afshin-jam-shocked-td-closing-accounts-of-iranian-canadians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}