"Canada will not stand idly by while the regime’s human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
violations increase in scope and intensity against the Iranian people... (and it takes) actions that continue to threaten international peace," Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement.
In November, Ottawa had already sanctioned two Iranian drone makers, Shahed Aviation Industries and Qods Aviation Industries.
Added in this new round was the Baharestan Kish Company, which has contracted with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp to provide drone research.
Also making the Canadian sanctions list was Safiran Airport Services for having "coordinated Russian military flights between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....and Russia, through which the Iranian regime transferred lethal Iranian-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Russia," said the statement.
The United States had already taken measures against both companies.
Ottawa also sanctioned the ultra-conservative Revolutionary Guards-linked daily Javan, accused of disseminating "anti-Semitic messaging and the Iranian regime’s propaganda."
Brigadier-General Morteza Talaei, senior judge Ali Ghanaatkar Mavardiani and security forces commander Hassan Karami were slapped with sanctions too.