Designating Iranian Products Kosher...Ain't

My mom was enjoying one of her favorite treats the other day, some delicious dates, when she happened to look at the package to see where they were from. Written in the teensiest letters such that she had to squint to read them: product of Iran, packaged in Canada. And even though the tasty morsels came from the nation which even as we speak is enriching the uranium to build the nukes to follow through on its promise to obliterate Israel (a "cancer" and "parasitical," according to the trash-talking Khomeinists), the dates had been designated COR, that is, super-duper Canadian kosher.

Whassup with that?