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.
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My respect for the Canucks just went up a whole hell of a lot of notches.
Wow! way to take the lead Canada.
A little more info here.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/09/07/pol-baird-canada-iran-embassy.html
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.
Mind those mullahs, King!
The Canadian Caper of 1979-80 did it for me.
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