A Sordid History with Iran

Published July 1, 2009

In pictures, Saeed Mortazavi is almost always impeccably dressed in a pressed grey suit, the white shirt underneath worn in the tie-less, open-collar style popular in Iran. He is bespectacled and sporting a close-cropped beard and moustache.

If most Canadians were to pass this man on the street, they likeley wouldn't spare him a second glance. But as far as successive Canadian governments are concerned,...