The World - News from July 17, 1988

A Canadian delegation visiting Iran to discuss improved relations held talks with Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Larijani, the Iranian news agency IRNA said. The Canadian team, led by Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister Marc Brault, discussed “bilateral relations and matters of mutual interest” with Larijani, according to the IRNA report, monitored in Cyprus. No other details were given. Ottawa pulled its diplomats out of Tehran in 1980 after sheltering and then assisting in the escape of six U.S. diplomats, who had eluded Iranian militants during the violent takeover of the American Embassy in 1979. Tehran had said Canada must apologize before it could reopen its embassy but dropped the condition last month.