Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government suspended ties with Iran in part due to an increasing risk to his country’s diplomats in the Middle Eastern country.
“This is a regime that, among its many wrongs, does not respect normal practices of diplomatic immunity,” Harper told reporters today in Vladivostok, Russia, where he is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit. “The risks to our diplomats just keep going up, so ever since last year, we have been scaling down our presence and I think this is the best decision in terms of our ability to protect our people and conduct foreign policy.”
