The following is excerpted from DFAIT news release on 29 May 2013.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird issued the following statement:
“Canada’s grave and sincere concern over Iran’s nuclear program again compels us to act decisively…
“The absence of progress with both the P5+1 [the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany] and the [International Atomic Energy Agency] IAEA leads Canada to ban, effective immediately, all imports to and exports from Iran. ..
This news release is available in its entirety at: http://www.international.gc.ca/wet30-1/aff/news-communiques/2013/05/29b.aspx?lang=eng.