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.

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.