Canada’s diplomatic relations with Iran were severed in 2012 by then-prime minister Stephen Harper, who criticized Iran’s human-rights record, its hostility to Israel and its support for terrorist groups
A flower is placed next to the photos of Iman and Parinaz Ghaderpanah on a memorial wall at a vigil in Toronto on Jan. 8, 2022. After a 13-year diplomatic freeze, Canada is invisible in Iran. An attempted rapprochement between the two countries in 2017 was shattered by events over the following years, including Iran’s shootdown of a passenger jet with dozens of Canadians on board.The former Canadian embassy in Tehran is empty and locked.
Many people in Iran still hope that the two governments can eventually patch up their differences. Canada has the world’s second-biggest Iranian diaspora, numbering about 300,000 people, and commentators have often noted the potential linkages between the two countries in business and other sectors. . In the federal election three years later, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised to restore relations. His government sent officials to Tehran for preliminary talks in 2017.
The large Iranian diaspora in Canada is another key factor. There are so many Iranian-Canadians in Toronto – about 90,000 – that the city is sometimes jokingly known in Iran as “Tehranto.” While some in the diaspora are strongly opposed to the Iranian government, others would like to see an improvement in relations, if only to make travel and other connections easier.
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