AFP, Montreal, 7 September 2012(translated from French) – Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) congratulated Canada on Friday for closing its mission in Tehran and expelling all Iranian diplomats from Ottawa.
In a statement recently obtained by AFP, the leader of the People’s Mojahedin, the main branch of the NCRI and a resistance that stationed in Iraq long ago under Saddam Hussein support, describing it as a “courageous act” approved that “diplomatic and economic relations with this regime are against the interests of the Iranian people”.
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird on Friday cited Iran’s “increasing military aid” to the Syrian regime, the Islamic republic’s controversial nuclear program and this regime menace threats against Israel for the closure of the Canadian embassy in Tehran.
The Canadian Embassy announced eight Canadian diplomats working in Tehran have already departed Iran and 17 Iranian diplomats in Ottawa have five days to leave the country.