Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada will not re-establish ties with Iran until “regime change” takes place in Tehran.
Anand made the comment to The Globe and Mail Saturday, and her office and department would not repeat that phrasing but has not disputed it.
“We will not open diplomatic relationships with Iran unless there is a regime change. Period,” the newspaper quoted Anand as saying.
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Global Affairs Canada would not provide the context of those remarks, instead writing that Ottawa will not restore diplomatic ties it severed in 2012 “so long as the Iranian government continues to brutalize its people and deny their legitimate aspirations.”
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Since late December, a violent crackdown in Iran has killed thousands of protesters across the country. That has prompted large demonstrations in Toronto and for Ottawa to unveil yet another round of sanctions against Iranian officials, marking the 23rd round of Canadian sanctions against Iran since 2022.
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Talking to Iranian expats is like talking to flat earthers.
They believe the Islamic Republic was a CIA coup while the Sha was not, when in fact the opposite is true.
What the expats fail to understand is that, at the time in 1979, the majority of the people (i.e. people outside the cities) wanted the Islamic Republic.
This same dynamic is playing out in Turkey with Erdogoun. His support comes from the countryside. The secular support is in the cities. That’s how he put down the military.
Same thing happened with the Taliban. They were popular in the country. And overtook the country when the US withdrew. But you would be stupid to say the CIA backed the Taliban government.
It’s very difficult for them to understand that their viewpoint was in the minority (at the time). They have to say the government was imposed on the country instead of confronting the reality that it was not.
These governments were not imposed, they were chosen. Negative consequences came as a result, like a lot of ultra conservative movements, but chosen none the less.
The current government fucked up though with killing protesters. The majority is prob against them now.
If you’re the one who downvoted my comment, what caused that?
Ment to down vote the post not comment.