Tuesday, March 03, 2009

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who leads a minority Conservative government, criticized Iran for covertly seeking to build nuclear weapons, reported Reuters on Feb 28.

’It concerns me that we have a regime with both an ideology that is obviously evil, combined with a desire to procure technology to act on that ideology,’ Harper said.

’My government is a very strong supporter of the state of Israel and considers the Iranian threats to be absolutely unacceptable and beyond the pale.’

Canada’s relations with Iran have been strained since 2003, when Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi died in custody in Tehran after being arrested.