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On 7 September, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada is suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran...Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast suggested that the real reason for Harper’s latest targeting of Iran was because of Iran’s successful hosting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran in August...

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives:

- called Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon a “measured response” (A  Canadian UN peacekeeper was targeted and killed by Israel in the invasion. Harper refused to protest, asking rhetorically in parliament what they were doing there in the first place.)

- refused to condemn the Israeli murder of nine members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in May 2009

- opposed an attempted IAEA probe of Israel’s nuclear facilities as part of an effort to create a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East

...‘Liberal’ leader added:
Iran’s regime is a threat to the security of the region and the world. A nuclear armed Iran would mean the threat of even greater proliferation and instability in the region, is a direct flouting of international law, and obviously raises the deepest concerns in Israel for its security.

Apparently a very much ‘nuclear armed Israel’ which daily threatens to bomb Iran does not raise his ‘deepest concerns ‘ for Iran’s security.