From the National Post
By Kenneth R. Timmerman and Sayeh Hassan
With the Middle East falling apart at the seams and Iran’s dictators poised to take advantage of the chaos, now is a good time to reassess Canadian policy toward Tehran.
Opportunities abound. U.S. President Barack Obama seems to be reassessing his earlier outreach to Tehran’s dictators, and in the traditional New Year’s greetings to the Iranian people recently he named dissidents and focused on the Iranian regime’s wretched human rights record.
So we welcome the initiative of the Canadian International Council and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa in holding a May 5 conference on Iran. But we question why the organizers would even contemplate inviting as a keynote speaker Trita Parsi, a pro-Tehran lobbyist who has become so infamous among Iranian-Americans that they show up for his events just to heckle him. Read More
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