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Embassy of Iraq in Ottawa

The Embassy of Iraq in Canada is the embassy of Iraq in Ottawa, Canada. It is located at 215 McLeod Street in the Centretown neighbourhood across the street from the Canadian Museum of Nature. In the 1980s the embassy was best known for its gala party held each year at the Chateau Laurier to celebrate Iraq National Day . In the late 1980s plans were underway to build an elaborate $5 millon dollar new embassy in Lower Town next door to the Chinese embassy

One negative incident occurred on August 10 when an Iranian who had lost three children in the Iran-Iraq War stabbed one of the Iraqi diplomats outside the Mayflower Restaurant on Elgin Street. The Gulf War had a great effect on the embassy. Four of Iraq's diplomats were expelled from Canada. Hisham Ibrahim al-Shawi , a respected intellectual and career diplomat remained as ambassador but had his activities severely curtailed. The plans for the new embassy were scrapped. In April 1991, in response to events in Iraq, a Kurdish mob attacked the embassy with stones and Molotov Cocktails, but little damage and no injuries resulted. In 1994 months before he was set to retire and return to Iraq al-Shawi flew to London with over a quarter million dollars of the embassy's money. There he defected and joined the Iraqi National Congress.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein never replaced al-Shawi as ambassador and for a number of years the embassy was run by more junior staffers. In the late 1990s the embassy was perennially short of cash and got in trouble for paying employees in alcohol and cigarettes. The Canadian government did not bow the U.S. pressure and close the embassy during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but Canada did expel a number of diplomats on suspicion of espionage. The lone Iraqi diplomat who remained, charge d'affaires Mamdouh Mustafa, shuttered himself inside the embassy attending few functions and refusing to talk to the media. In December 2003 Mustafa returned to Iraq leaving the embassy vacant. In May 2004 the embassy reopened with a staff dispatched by the new Iraqi government, and a new ambassador Hawar Ziad arrived at the end of the year.

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