Ottawa’s efforts to restore relations with Tehran going ‘nowhere,’ says academic

Consular issues tend to 'occupy a lot of the bandwidth of relations,' making it hard for both parties to break new ground, says Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured June 13, addressing a crowd of politicos in Washington, D.C., where she appealed to the need for an international, rules-based order. Photograph courtesy of Foreign Policy magazine's Twitter profile

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

June 20, 2018

The Trudeau government is unlikely to fulfill a campaign promise to normalize diplomatic ties with Iran, because, among other things, it is consumed with managing consular cases and it is still dealing with the legacy of Harper-era policies, says Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Otta...

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