TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) -- Iran has summoned Canada’s charge d'affaires after it was revealed that a former Canadian ambassador to Tehran had spied for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The former Canadian ambassador to Tehran violated the Vienna Convention in regard to his diplomatic mission and the Canada government must be held accountable for such a violation, the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday.
The diplomat vowed to notify Canada’s Foreign Ministry of the issue and promised to give the necessary response to Tehran as soon as possible.
Canada's former ambassador to Tehran, Kenneth Taylor, has revealed he actively spied for the CIA and helped the U.S. plan a military incursion into the country after Iranian students took control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979.
An arrangement was set up by then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, whereby Taylor would provide U.S. intelligence with information from his position at the Canadian Embassy in Tehran, according to a report published in The Globe and Mail.
The report added that details of Taylor''s role are revealed in the book “Our Man in Tehran” by Trent University historian Robert Wright.
Taylor was Canada’s ambassador to Iran from 1977 to 1980.
Source: Mehr News.
Link: http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=1034305.
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