Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Mon. February 23rd, 2026

OTTAWA — Israel’s top diplomat in Canada says the elimination of Iran’s head of state in coordinated U.S.-Israeli airstrikes doesn’t necessarily mean the country’s Islamist regime is critically compromised, in fact, he says it could now be more dangerous than ever. “The Iranian regime has manufactured a system of power that has been able to sustain itself for 45 years and to unleash death and destruction on its own people,” Israeli Ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed told National Post in an exclusive interview on Sunday. Moed said it was “hard to tell” how the death of Ayatollah Ali...