OTTAWA-- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally appealed to Canadian allies Italy and Switzerland, and allies of Iran, namely Oman, to secure the release of Homa Hoodfar from a Tehran prison where she was jailed since June, the Star has learned. The Hoodfar and Garratt cases could represent, for two Canadian families, the fruits of the Liberal government’s strategy of deliberate re-engagement. The former DND analyst specializing in Iran pointed out Iran is “absolutely opaque on issues like this.”“We don’t know why she was taken. At the G20 summit in August in China, Trudeau spoke to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, whose government maintains diplomatic ties to Iran. “We thought what does that actually mean and will anything actually transpire,” said the Canadian official who has knowledge of the file.

Source: thestar September 27, 2016 00:11 UTC