OTTAWA — Iran has ordered Canada’s ambassador to leave the country, the Canadian foreign minister said late Monday, calling the move entirely unjustifiable.
Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier suggested the expulsion of Ambassador John Mundy was a tit-for-tat move by the government in Tehran.
Canada and Iran have tried to agree on an exchange of envoys for some time, but Canada is not willing to accept the candidates Tehran has proposed thus far.
“Unfortunately, we have as yet been unable to accept the candidates Tehran has submitted,” Bernier said in a statement.
Seyed Mahdi Mohebi said in an interview with The Canadian Press that he has twice asked for a resumption of high-level contacts.
“It is one-sided love,” Mohebi told CP in an interview conducted in Farsi. “Love should be mutual.”
