Canada: Federal Government

Prime Minister Stephen Harper Dept: MONTREAL -- Canada decided to close its embassy in Iran a few weeks ago after spending several months re-evaluating its presence in the country amid growing tension, the federal government said Friday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. They cast the move as a security decision in remarks they made Friday, a day on which western embassies came under attack in the Muslim world and adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press archives Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Canada s embassy in Tehran is unsafe because it sits next to a road. Comments by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird elaborated on a decision that caught observers off-guard. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.