Immigration Services: The Canadian Embassy

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird Dept: Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced in a statement last Friday that Canada was closing its embassy in Tehran and kicking out Iranian diplomats, according to CBC. Immigration services had been removed from the embassy months ago. Speaking Monday in Ottawa, Kenney said that was in anticipation of the embassy's closure and canada is carefully screening Iranians seeking to move to Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said today. Staff with the Canadian Embassy had already left Iran and Iranian diplomats in Canada had five days to leave, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.