Please find attached a copy of Immigration and Refugee Board transcripts of an examination of a former immigration officer based in Tehran, dated 2 September 1997, and an examination conducted by telephone conference call with a former visa officer in Tehran dated 29 September 1997. Please note that both transcripts have been sanitized and reviewed by the interviewees.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) of Canada. 29 September 1997. Toronto. (Telephone conference call with a former visa officer, edited transcript)

_____. 2 September 1997. Toronto. (Examination of Pierre Trottier, edited transcript)