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Canada severs ties with Iran
Cable News Network ^ | 12:33 AM EDT, Sat September 8, 2012 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 09/07/2012 10:55:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Canada suspended relations with Iran and expelled the country's diplomats Friday, calling the country's regime "the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today."

Iranian diplomats in Canada have five days to get out, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Friday in a scathing statement. Canada's diplomatic staff has already left Iran, and Baird advised all Canadians to avoid travel to the country. …

A spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry slammed the decision Saturday. "Hostile attitude of the Canadian racist government is indeed pursuing the policies as dictated by the Zionist regime and the UK," Ramin Mehmanparast said, according to the semi-official news agency, IRNA. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; iran; jihad; religionofpeace
Hmm . . . the world’s biggest racists (Iran) accuse others of racism. Familiar refrain indeed.
1 posted on 09/07/2012 10:56:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

My respect for the Canucks just went up a whole hell of a lot of notches.


2 posted on 09/07/2012 10:58:40 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Olog-hai

Wow! way to take the lead Canada.


3 posted on 09/08/2012 2:17:08 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: VaRepublican

A little more info here.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/09/07/pol-baird-canada-iran-embassy.html


4 posted on 09/08/2012 2:18:07 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: VaRepublican
Makes me proud of my Canadian ancestry
5 posted on 09/08/2012 3:55:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Olog-hai

Canada action is reminiscent of Eastwood talking to an empty chair or the boy telling the Emperor Obama he has no clothes.
Have heard that Iraq is allowing Iran to uses their airspace to supply Syria....What stupid, incompetent poseurs Obama and company are. Maybe once Iran attacks Israel, Canada will allow the refugees to immigrate into their country........why would Israelis want to come to the United States, a country that abandoned them under the DemoRats.


6 posted on 09/08/2012 4:13:47 AM PDT by BilLies
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To: Progov

Mind those mullahs, King!

7 posted on 09/08/2012 4:54:01 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
My respect for the Canucks just went up a whole hell of a lot of notches.

The Canadian Caper of 1979-80 did it for me.

8 posted on 09/08/2012 6:27:44 AM PDT by Roccus
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