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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I agree.
I’ve known a number of Iranian expats and they were by and large a very intelligent, practical, and caring group. If you ask any of them they’re story you’ll hear about working incredibly hard to get out.
I feel bad for the people of Iran, but after seeing the government slaughter thousands of protestors I want us to have nothing to do with the Iranian government. They’re beyond help and have had decades of opportunity.
It is a very sad situation.
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.
We lined up behind Trump on Gaza, said nothing about Venezuela, are saying nothing about Cuba, and essentially support the US against Iran. Where is the rupture?
Rubio flies over to Munich and gets a standing ovation for a speech in which he talks about a return to transatlantic empire flexing over the rest of the world, and materially we’re basically still seeing that.
Carney’s rhetoric at Davos was nice. I remain totally unconvinced that there is material change to accompany that rhetoric. Seems like dropping liberalism for values-based realism is just a retreat into realism. Calling it “Values-Based” is just the new rhetorical compromise and branding effort to make it palatable for stakeholders who were attached to the narrative of the liberal international order.
Canada doesn’t want diplomatic relations with Iran. Fine. Personally, I think diplomatic engagement should exist with every country, because diplomacy includes engaging even with those you regard as enemies and that’s how diplomacy offers benefits. But, if Canada’s government doesn’t want that, okay. Still, while the US is building up a massive force in the region, we won’t even make a statement about opposing wars of aggression or unilateral engagement in armed conflict?
Sure seems like we’re still aligned with the Transatlantic Empire idea.
What are the Global South countries we seem to be trying to hedge our bets with to think of us? They’re not blind. Should they trust us? We don’t actually seem to have any problem with US adventurism, even while having our national identity and sovereignty threatened and undermined by the US on the daily.
A rupture should be a matter of material change, but I’m thinking a few years from now everyone will look back on this as just a nice speech while we kept sailing right alongside the US through the night.
Canada prepares an aid package for Cuba as it faces fuel shortages worsened by the US oil embargo. And Canada does and should stand with the Iranian people against an oppressive regime that has killed thousands in the last weeks.
These are just two points of your comment that is misleading and in some parts outright wrong.
The bank bro government continuing to signal support for the Trumpist agenda despite all their meaningless words?
Crazy. How could Liberals do this? Just lie right to your face?
For the Trump agenda? The Iranians have been (once again) fighting against their oppressive regime and demand a change.
As everyone knows, a protest movement means everyone in the country wants to be invaded by Christofascists.
Nah, a vast majority of Iranians rejects the Islamic Republic. There are several independent surveys that prove that, as this one from 2024 said:
… The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN), which conducted the survey in June 2024, said …, “A majority of the population opposes the Islamic Republic and supports changing or transforming the political system.” … Support for the principles of the 1979 revolution and the Supreme Leader fell to 11 percent, down from 18 percent in 2022. By contrast, some 40 percent of participants said regime change was a precondition for reform, while another 24 percent favored a structural transition away from the current system.
A clear majority of Iranians do not want the theocracy that came to power with the 1979 revolution. They want a secular democracy.
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I read your irrelevant guppy nonsense that willfully ignores that a minister saying what they did while Trump threatens invasion is showing support for another neocrusade.
