BY CBC: As families of Flight PS752 victims mark the fourth anniversary of the aircraft's destruction, the federal government isn't ruling out designating the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization — a measure the families have demanded for years.

PS752 was shot down by the (IRGC) shortly after taking off from Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 people onboard, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents.

The Iranian government claimed in a 2021 report that the airliner was shot down accidentally after being "misidentified" by an air defence unit as a "hostile target" — a conclusion Canadian safety officials say Iran failed to support with evidence.

Four years later, families of the PS752 dead are urging the federal government to finally heed their call to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity in Canada — a move the government isn't ruling out

"Canada has to find a way to list this organization as a terrorist organization," Kourosh Doustshenas, spokesperson for the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims, told CBC News Friday. Doustshenas' fiancée, Forough Khadem, was killed when the airliner was shot down.

"This is not a regular military force of a country. They are interfering in all other countries. And also they are being used as an arm for suppressing any demand for freedom or expression of opinions [inside Iran]," said Doustshenas, citing the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown on protests following the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini.

"This organization is nothing but a terrorist organization."

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