If the Canadian government is even considering reopening the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Ottawa, Canadians deserve a straight answer—not quiet backroom planning, not vague language, and not political avoidance.

Because this is not routine diplomacy.

This is the same embassy Canada shut down in 2012 for serious national security reasons tied to a regime with a long record of repression at home and intimidation abroad.

Now there are serious concerns it may be brought back.

Possibly in the summer.

Possibly when Parliament is less active.

That alone should concern every Canadian.

Across the country, hundreds of thousands of Iranian-Canadians have taken to the streets in solidarity with the people of Iran—against executions, political imprisonment, torture, and the killing of protesters.

This is not symbolic activism.

This is a lived experience.

Exile. Loss. Survival.

And it leads to one unavoidable question:

Whose side is Canada on?

Canada has already designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity under Canadian law. That is not political language. It is a legal and national security designation.

So the question is unavoidable:

How does Canada justify reopening a full embassy for a regime whose core power structure is tied to that apparatus?

Why not a limited interests section through a third country arrangement, as other governments use when full normalization is considered too risky?

Why full diplomatic cover?

Embassies are not symbolic offices. They come with immunity, legal........

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