After U.S. strikes in Iran, Torontonians with family in Iran, Israel worry for loved ones

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 22, 2025 7:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

U.S. strikes connected Iran this play are reverberating successful Toronto, arsenic with immoderate successful the metropolis fear for their loved ones successful the Middle East portion others protested outside the U.S consulate successful reaction. 

On Saturday, the U.S. subject attacked cardinal Iranian atomic sites successful Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, the latest improvement successful an escalating conflict betwixt Israel and Iran. 

Mina Morshed, a Toronto pistillate who has household successful Tehran, told CBC TV's Rosemary Barton Live that her parents and sister are successful Tehran and she spoke to them a fewer days ago. 

She said she has tried to archer them that they are not alone.

"I americium disquieted astir my parents, family, friends," Morshed said. 

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Those with household successful Israel person akin concerns. 

Laurent Attali, a Toronto-born Montrealer present surviving successful Etobicoke, said helium has been trying for days to get his 2 daughters and their families, who unrecorded adjacent Tel Aviv, retired of Israel.

He said helium bought them 2 sets of level tickets that were cancelled by the airlines. 

Attali said the latest program is for them to spell by autobus from Tel Aviv to the Amman airdrome successful Jordan, but it's not a bully solution, as Amman is considered hostile to Israelis due to the fact that of Palestinian supporters who unrecorded there.

He said helium thinks the Canadian authorities could charter a vessel oregon level from Israel to get Canadians radical out.

Now, Attali said helium has been glued to the tv to fig retired wherever the bombs are being dropped successful Tel Aviv to spot if the sites are adjacent wherever his household and friends live.

"For us, since that evening, we person been 10 to 15 hours a time [watching] the TV. We are each the clip astatine the TV," helium said.

Protestors stitchery extracurricular U.S. consulate Sunday 

Meanwhile, hundreds of radical gathered extracurricular the U.S. consulate connected Sunday afternoon to protest U.S. subject enactment successful Iran. 

Organizers of the "Hands Off Iran" rally said successful a media advisory that the demonstrators condemn Western engagement successful the conflict, and are besides calling on the Canadian authorities to authorisation Israel and to instrumentality an arms embargo connected Israel.

Parsa Golesorkhi, an organizer of the rally, said helium has been watching his hometown of Tehran get bombed successful what helium called an "unprovoked, amerciable and transgression enactment of aggression" by Israel and now, the United States. 

"We are present archetypal of each to condemn this aggression against our radical — and we are not conscionable arsenic Iranians, but lasting with our allies from antithetic communities, from the Palestinian community, from the Jewish community," Golesorkhi said.

Noah Shack, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, based successful Toronto, said attacks connected Iranian atomic sites are justified fixed the information that they airs to the world.

"The Iranian atomic programme poses a menace not conscionable to Israel but to the broader Middle East and so the world," helium said.

"This is simply a unsafe authorities and the satellite is safer without them having entree to atomic weapons."

Prime Minister Mark Carney, successful a station connected X, said connected Sunday that the U.S. subject enactment was "designed to alleviate" threats posed by Iran, but the concern successful the Middle East remains "highly volatile."

"Stability successful the portion is simply a priority," Carney said. "Canada calls connected parties to instrumentality instantly to the negotiating array and scope a diplomatic solution to extremity this crisis."