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OTTAWA CITIZEN (H/T Susan K) Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird delivered a diplomatic bolt from the blue Friday, abruptly and unexpectedly severing ties with Iran, shuttering Canada’s embassy there and giving Iranian diplomats in Ottawa five days to get out of the country. Baird rattled off a litany of long-standing grievances with Iran during a hastily organized news conference in the Russian city of Vladivostok, where he and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are [...] GOOGLE TRANSLATE: The head of Iran’s central bank last raised his hands to signal surrender market. Mahmoud Bahmani said the currency will announce new prices for the next 10 days to get a single exchange rate. Iran already had tried the single currency rates, but failed. Amir Payvar reports. http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/business/2012/08…
Excerpts of the report, posted this week on several Iranian websites, revealed that the government might not be able to pay the full salaries of its [...] OTTAWA — The Harper government has closed the Canadian Embassy in Iran and ordered all Iranian diplomats in Canada to leave the country. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird blamed Iran’s increasing military assistance to the Syrian government, its refusal to comply with UN resolutions on its nuclear program, its anti-Israel stance and its support for terrorism as among the reasons for the move… Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canada+closes+embassy+Iran/7206256/story.html#ixzz25nXZtWeC Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah may have hundreds of operatives based in the United States, and Hezbollah – not al-Qaida – poses the greatest terrorist threat to Americans, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, said today. Since September 11 2001, America’s counter-terror officials have focussed on al-Qaida and home-grown radicalised American extremists, said the New York representative at a hearing of his committee. But, now, the terrorist [...] |
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