Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a couple other conservative ministers thought it prudent to invite a group of Iranian-Canadians to Ottawa as a way of proving how cozy and cordial relations actually are between Iranian-Canadians and the federal government.

The meeting, which happened soon after...

As Iranian embassy officials depart Canada per foreign affairs minister John Baird's Friday morning decision, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, the Iranian-Canadian wife of defence minister Peter MacKay and a human rights activist who vigorously fought for the embassy's closure over the past couple months is spreading news that she is...

In The Tale of Two Nazanins (2012), Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a prominent Iranian-Canadian human rights activist and former Miss Canada pageant winner (2003), narrates how she chose to commit herself to the case of Nazanin Fatehi--a young Iranian woman who was sentenced to death in early 2006 for killing...