September 10, 2012 - 4:10 PM
OTTAWA - A group of Iranian-Canadians is demonstrating outside the Department of Foreign Affairs — but their message is one of gratitude.
About three dozen members of different advocacy groups are waving placards with thank-you messages directed towards Stephen Harper's Conservative government.
They're happy with last week's surprising move by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to close the Canadian embassy in Iran and send Iranian diplomats in Canada home.
Some say operatives connected with the Iranian embassy had intimidated them, and harassed family members still living in their home country.
The demonstrators say there was no longer any point in the Canadian government trying to communicate with the Iranian regime.
Some in the crowd, including former Liberal MP David Kilgour, want the government to remove People's Mujahedin of Iran — a resistance group — from Canada's list of terrorist organizations.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2012