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Iran Sees Ulterior Motives in Canada Breaking Ties

2012-09-10

[An Nahar] Iranian authorities on Sunday advanced different arguments as to why they believed Canada abruptly cut diplomatic ties, pointing the finger at Israeli influence or Tehran's hosting of a recent summit rather than Ottawa's stated reasons.

"Canada's action is in line with the interests of the Zionist regime (Israel) as it seeks to boost of its relations with the (Israeli) regime," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told a closed-door session of parliament, according to the Mehr news agency.

Canada was also upset that U.N. chief

the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
had attended an August 30-31 summit of non-aligned countries in Tehran, Salehi said, according to the ISNA news agency.

Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told the session, according to the ILNA agency, that "Canada's badly thought-out behavior shows it is nervous."

He said Canada's decision was in response to Iran's "economy of resistance," which officials say is weathering severe Western economic sanctions.

Larijani also pointed to the non-aligned summit, saying "Western countries are seeking to portray Iran's hosting of the summit as unconventional."

The arguments showed that Iran's authorities saw ulterior motives behind Canada's surprise decision announced on Friday to close its Tehran embassy and to order Iran's diplomatic staff out of Ottawa.

Officially, Canada said its step was because it views Iran "as the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today."

Posted by:Fred

#3 It is this simple totally destabilize the Middle East let Russia and China fight over it and Russia gets it's own gigantic Mexico. Pull all the troops out of Korea China won't know what to do or North Korea! Pull out of Africa and let the inbred socialists in Euro Trash ville deal with their own crap for real! Bring the troops home secure the north and south/ area around Panama Canal carrier group on the east and west of canal! Troops on border north and south also creates economy for our economy and jobs! let Canada stick to beer, exotic dancers and back bacon something they are good at! Sit back and give them back all of the problems they have tried to suck us into over the years and laugh at them and India will just get caught in the middle and Pakistan and them can nuke each other! We televise it by sat and eat popcorn the end!

Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 2012-09-10 22:39

#2 So will we see other Western nations closing their embassies and decamping? I doubt it unless they have reasons more pressing than anger like say. . . .

Posted by: F(ran) Galt 2012-09-10 12:45

#1 Iran has been funding violent Muslim student groups, radical ultranationalist separatist parties in Quebec and various antisemitic Khomeinist groups across the country through its embassy in Ottawa.

I could go on, but you get the picture.

Posted by: Glinesh Craling7938 2012-09-10 07:14

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