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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada would like to see a diplomatic solution to the ear in Iran, even as Canada has expressed support for the US military attack that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday.
Toronto Today reports that Anand, speaking to reporters in New Delhi after Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly cancelled his scheduled news conference Monday, would not say whether Canada sees the US-Israel strikes on Iran as a violation of international law.
Carney and Anand were both in India for a four-day diplomatic and trade mission when the US and Israel launched their major attack on Iran on Saturday.
Italian officials have said more than 150 people, including children, died after a reported missile strike on a school in southern Iran.
On Saturday, Carney said Canada supports the military action, but that Canada would not get involved. Anand reiterated that Monday, and confirmed Canada had no advance notification.
The UN education agency, UNESCO, called the bombing on the school a “grave violation of humanitarian law.”
Global Affairs Canada said Monday there are 85,000 Canadians and permanent residents registered in 15 countries in the Middle East, including more than 23,000 in both the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon, and almost 11,000 in Saudi Arabia. Nearly 3,000 are in Iran.
