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Why Canada Severed Relations with Iran
(CBC News) Daniel Schwartz - Janice Stein, a Middle East expert and director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, told CBC News she sees the move as an "issue of security for diplomatic personnel in Tehran as the sanctions ramp up, and Canada's remaining diplomatic personnel would be a prime target were crowds to turn hostile." Ray Boisvert, the assistant director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service until April 2012, told CBC Radio Saturday that Canada does not normally take the lead in this kind of foreign policy action. He also pointed to what he said was the Iranian Embassy "running some kind of threatening operation" aimed at the Iranian community in Canada. According to Boisvert, Iran "absolutely" poses a security threat in Canada.