List of Canadian ambassadors in Iran
The Canadian embassy was in Tehran .
| Appointed | Accredited | Surname | Remarks | Government of Canada | President of Iran | Leave post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 9, 1959 | March 11, 1959 | George Bernard Summers | Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire | John Diefenbaker | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Feb. 14, 1961 |
| Jan. 12, 1961 | Feb. 14, 1961 | George Bernard Summers | ambassador | July 25, 1962 | ||
| Nov 29, 1962 | Jan. 26, 1963 | Thomas Paul Malone | May 5, 1965 | |||
| July 26, 1967 | Christopher Campbell Eberts | Lester Pearson | Dec. 20, 1971 | |||
| Dec. 20, 1971 | Frederick Martyn Meech | Chargé d'affaires (born September 4, 1915 in Windsor ) | Pierre Trudeau | |||
| May 23, 1972 | James George | 21 Sep 1977 | ||||
| July 28, 1977 | Oct 8, 1977 | Kenneth Douglas Taylor | Jan. 27, 1980 | |||
| Jan. 27, 1980 | Broken relationships | Protector New Zealand | Abolhassan Banisadr | |||
| Scott J. Mullin | Chargé d'affaires | Brian Mulroney | Ali Khamene'i | Nov 1, 1990 | ||
| Jan. 9, 1991 | Paul Stewart Dingledine | Brian Mulroney | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjan | |||
| Dec 15, 1993 | Donald P. McLennan | Kim Campbell | ||||
| Sep 11 1996 | Michel de Salaberry | Jean Chrétien | ||||
| Aug 11, 1999 | Terence William Thomas Colfer | Mohammad Chātami | ||||
| Aug 20, 2001 | Philip MacKinnon | |||||
| Nov 22, 2004 | March 26, 2005 | Gordon E. Venner | Paul Martin | |||
| Apr 13, 2007 | John M. Mundy | Stephen Harper | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Dec 3, 2007 | ||
| Dec 3, 2007 | James Carrick | Chargé d'affaires geologist, joined the Foreign Service in January 1989, employed in Mexico City from 1990 to 1992, employed in New Delhi from 2000–2004. | Sep 7 2012 | |||
| Sep 7 2012 | Broken relationships | Embassy in Tehran closed. The Persian ambassador in Toronto had been declared a persona nongrata and received a lesaiz passé for five days. | ||||
| 17 Sep 2012 | Protector Italy |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reuters, September 7, 2012, Canada closes Iran embassy , to expel remaining Iranian diplomats
- ↑ Canada Thanks Italy for Agreeing to Represent Interests in Iran . In: Foreign Affairs Media Relations Office , September 17, 2012.
- ↑ Iran Not Consulted on Selection of Italian Embassy as Canada's Interests Section . In: Fars News Agency , September 18, 2012. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Canadian Heads of Posts Abroad since 1880. Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada , September 12, 2013, accessed December 30, 2014 .
- ↑ Canada and Iran. Government of Canada, accessed December 30, 2014 .
