Department Of Foreign Affairs: Zahra Kazemi

Demonstration Dept: They held another demonstration on Monday this one a demonstration of affection, featuring a bouquet for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and an impromptu sort of conga line on the lawn in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Iranian Canadians referred to it as a "nest" of terrorism. Their protests against the Iranian embassy reached a high point in 2003, after the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in an Iranian prison and oTTAWA - For years, a group of Iranian Canadians held protests around Ottawa and elsewhere, stubbornly demanding the closure of the Iranian embassy and the severing of diplomatic ties. About three dozen members of different human rights and resistance groups were celebrating the government's decision last week to eject Iranian diplomats and shutter the Canadian embassy in Tehran. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.