Why Canada doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Iran anymore
Global News
Canada's strained relationship with Iran goes back more than a decade, when a Conservative government under former prime minister Stephen Harper cut diplomatic ties with Tehran.
There are at least 3,000 Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Iran as protests and a brutal regime crackdown roil the country that Canada no longer has diplomatic relations with.
Canadians in Iran are being urged to “leave now” if it is safe to do so and make a land border crossing to either Turkey or Armenia to access any consular support services.
Without diplomatic relations, Canada and Iran maintain no embassies or diplomatic staff in each other’s countries.
Italy acts as what is known as a “protecting power” for Canada in Iran, with a limited diplomatic capacity for handling emergency consular cases.
Switzerland acts in that role for Iran in Canada, and Iran’s shuttered embassy in Ottawa was defaced earlier this week.
But it hasn’t always been that way — so how did we get here?
The freeze in diplomatic relations goes back more than a decade.
The Conservative government led by former prime minister Stephen Harper placed economic sanctions on Iran in 2010 over fears that Iran was pursuing the development of nuclear weapons.
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