Arash Khorasani

Earthquakes continued to shake northwest Iran Tuesday following the deadly twin quakes that hit the region over the weekend.

Saeed Malekpour, a permanent resident of Canada, traveled to Iran over three years ago to say goodbye to his dying father who was suffering from a brain tumor. What he didn’t know was that his family would soon be faced with yet another adversity: three days after setting foot in the country Malekpour was arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and later sentenced to death.

Earthquakes continued to shake northwest Iran Tuesday following the deadly twin quakes that hit the region over the weekend.

Saeed Malekpour, a permanent resident of Canada, traveled to Iran over three years ago to say goodbye to his dying father who was suffering from a brain tumor. What he didn’t know was that his family would soon be faced with yet another adversity: three days after setting foot in the country Malekpour was arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and later sentenced to death.