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The Iranian regime remains the \u201cbiggest threat to global peace\u201d as it \u201coppresses with terror at home and sponsors it abroad,\u201d Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said Wednesday in a speech, The Globe and Mail reported.<\/p>\nThe Iranian regime remains the \u201cbiggest threat to global peace\u201d as it \u201coppresses with terror at home and sponsors it abroad,\u201d Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said Wednesday in a speech, The Globe and Mail reported.<\/p>\n
Mr. Baird, who cut Canada\u2019s diplomatic ties with Tehran in 2012, warned that the ruling regime should not be trusted.<\/p>\n
It would be nice \u201cto believe that Iran is genuinely committed to positive change,\u201d he said, but \u201cwe do not have the luxury to be naive, nor do the Iranian people, who have suffered for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Human rights abuses have worsened under the supposedly more moderate government elected last year in Tehran, Mr. Baird said, calling the Interior Minister the \u201cMinister of Murder.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Iran\u2019s nuclear program, which Tehran insists has no military purpose, the minister was openly scornful.\u00a0\u201cIn Canada, we do things differently.\u00a0We build our nuclear reactors close to the electricity grid and we don\u2019t manufacture medical isotopes under 300 feet of rock,\u201d he said, referring to the widely separated, remote and deeply buried nuclear facilities in Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cA nuclear Iran is not only a threat to the United States, it\u2019s a threat to Canada, and a threat to Israel and our allies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The minister dismissed as bygone the era of Canadian foreign relations when policy was driven by \u201ctesting the temperature of those around the table and landing somewhere not too hot, not too cool.\u201d That\u2019s relativism, not leadership, and \u201cthe easy way out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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