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Canada
October 15, 2024 Canadian officials are encouraging Israeli violence in Iran. Once again, they are supporting the neoconservatives who view the genocide in Gaza, weakening of Hezbollah and Iran’s response to Israeli provocations as a bid to remake the Middle East just like in the build-up to the last US invasion of Iraq. In recent years Canadian politicians have been increasingly close with the violent, cult-like, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which has assisted Israel in assassinating Iranian scientists. The MEK is excited at the prospects of Israel’s war with Iran as is the son of the deposed Shah, former crown prince Pahlavi. Both view an Israel/US war against Iran as an opportunity to come to power. Last week Blair said it would be 'appropriate' for Israel to bomb Iranian oil facilities. 'When we talk about (Israel’s) ability to defend (itself), certainly that would include missile launch sites, military installations, airfields from which these attacks are being launched,' Canada’s defence minister said. Asked whether that included attacking Iranian oil facilities, Blair said he thought that would be 'appropriate.' Conservative leader Poilievre incited the apartheid state to go further. He stated, 'I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow,' Poilievre said. 'If Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.' If Israel carried out Poilievre and Blair’s positions it would likely elicit a significant reaction from Iran. In turn, Israel would probably escalate and the two countries could descend into a war that may directly involve the US, which just announced it is sending 100 troops to Israel to operate a sophisticated anti-missile system. Poilievre’s claim that Iran is 'genocidal' is absurd. It’s Israel that’s been committing genocide for a year in Gaza. Iran is also less 'dictatorial' than other countries in the region. Saudi Arabia has already executed 213 people this year and is far more repressive towards women. While Iran’s 290-person parliament reserves five seats for Armenians (two) Assyrians, Zoroastrians and Jews, the Saudi monarchy effectively bans the Christian Bible. (Source: original.antiwar *)
* Antiwar.com, an American political website, a project of the Randolph Bourne Institute, with a right-wing libertarian perspective, devoted to non-interventionism and opposing war.
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