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Iran on Monday said Canada had a "neo-conservative extremist government" as it kept up a furious response to Ottawa's decision last week to cut diplomatic ties. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi used that description in an interview with the Iranian parliament's website (icana.ir) in which he also said the Canadian government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper was "boundlessly defending international Zionism." Canada last Friday made the surprise announcement that it had shut its Tehran embassy and was ordering the Iranian embassy in Ottawa closed by the middle of this week. It said it took the step because it views Iran "as the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today," citing “Tehran's support of the Syrian regime, defiance over Iran's disputed nuclear program, anti-Israeli rhetoric, human rights violations, and alleged state sponsorship of terrorism.” Salehi said that Iran viewed Canada's decision as "irrational and unjustified." He said Iran's nuclear program "is not a new issue" and added that, when it came to Syria, Western countries "help extremist groups massacre Syrians." He also rounded on Canada for mentioning Iran's human rights record, saying that, "by cutting ties it is putting limitations on 400,000 Iranians residing in Canada -- is this in line with observing human rights?" Iran has threatened to take "adequate" retaliation over Canada's decision. That began with Iran's parliament confirming in a statement that its speaker, Ali Larijani, had cancelled an October trip to Canada's city of Quebec to attend an inter-parliamentary conference. |
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Iran has never invaded nor attacked any country. Iran was the subject of unjust and imposed wars by imperial powers. In 1941, the Soviet, British and Commonwealth armed forces invaded Iran in an attempt to undermine the Germans’ growing influence in Iran and their dominance over Iran’s vast oil reserves. 40 yrs later, under the pressure from US and its European allies, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and killed 500,000 Iranians. As a victim of imperialism and warmongering policies of the superpowers, it’s a vapid joke to claim that Iran poses the most significant threat to global peace and security.To isolate Iran internationally, and Israel was involved in the decision the Canadian government made out of the blue. Recently 120 world countries of the Non-Aligned Movement gathering in Tehran threw weight behind Iran’s nuclear program and expressed their opposition to the unilateral sanctions of US and its European allies against Iran. Iran is not a country that can be isolated this easily.
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