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Residents are evacuated from a building hit by a projectile in Tirat Hacarmel, northern Israel, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo\/Leo Correa)<\/p>\nPrime Minister Mark Carney said he supports the U.S. action in Iran, but Canada will not get directly involved in the conflict after American and Israeli militaries launched an attack on the Middle Eastern country overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not been party to the military build-up to this or the military planning of this, so it is not envisioned that we would be part of it moving forward,\u201d he said at an event in Mumbai, India.<\/p>\n
Carney called Iran the \u201cprincipal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East\u201d and said it must never be able to develop a nuclear weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,\u201d Carney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also recognized the struggle of the Iranian people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada stands with Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against this oppressive regime and we reaffirm Israel\u2019s right to defend itself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Iranian media has reported strikes nationwide, with some of the first strikes appearing to hit areas around the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the 86-year-old leader was in his offices at the time of the strike.<\/p>\n
Carney urged Canadians in Iran to shelter in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hours after the strikes, Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it launched a \u201cfirst wave\u201d of drones and missiles targeting Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Residents are evacuated from a building hit by a projectile in Tirat Hacarmel, northern Israel, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo\/Leo Correa)<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump justified the military action by claiming that Iran has continued to develop its nuclear program and plans to develop missiles to reach the U.S. Trump also listed grievances stretching back to the beginning of the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
Carney said he and his finance and foreign affairs ministers have had a series of discussions in recent weeks with the U.S. president and top officials about \u201cthe possibility of this happening\u201d if diplomatic efforts were not successful. But he said he does not expect that Canada will become directly involved in the military operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not been party to the military buildup to this, or the military planning of this, so it is not envisioned that we would be part of it moving forward,\u201d the prime minister said during a forum on Canada-India economic relations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An earlier statement from Anand said Canada\u2019s ability to help those in Iran would be limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no Canadian embassy in Iran and our ability to provide consular services is extremely limited, especially during an active conflict,\u201d she said in her statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She also advised Canadians in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon to consider leaving \u201cwhile commercial options remain available.\u201d<\/p>\n
A statement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called the Iranian regime \u201cthe principal source of terror in the Middle East and around the world\u201d that has \u201cshown no good faith in negotiations to change course.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why Conservatives support the courageous people of Iran in toppling this terror regime and reclaiming their destiny after 47 years of the regime\u2019s occupation. Conservatives support a democratic, free and permanently-denuclearized Iran that lives in peace and security with its neighbours,\u201d he said in the statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Conservatives support the United States, Israel, and our allies across the Gulf to defend their sovereignty and dismantle the clerical military dictatorship of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carney said he expects there will be an impact on oil prices when asked in India about the potential financial impact of the hostilities. But he said the issue is about global security.<\/p>\n
\u201cI view the issue as a fundamental issue of geopolitics, of ending state-sponsored terrorism, ending nuclear proliferation in Iran and of course protecting civilian lives as much as possible as opposed to majoring on the economic side, which I don\u2019t view as being, in the fullness of time, that material,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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