Why on earth would Canada cut relations with Iran? It has no significant effect on Iran or on Canada. The reasons that are given are absurd. Iran the worst threat to world peace?

In the past several weeks, something very strange has been going on in Israel. I have seen severall public statements  (thought not in much of the North American press) by Israeli military leaders and retired intelligence officers that are critical of Netanyahu for pushing for a war with Iran.

Things seem a little slow so I thought maybe some of you might be interested in this story.  

It seems that the Iranians are suffering from delusions ... apparently they think the U.S. is out to get them.  How deluded can you be?!  The U.S. wouldn't act like that!  Excerpts are as follows:

Gee! Sometimes you just don't know what to think.  I mean, this Iran thing is so terrible that even Harper admits that Iran being so close to a nuclear bomb is the scariest thing in the world. And all the GOT candidates (except one) in the US want to attack Iran right now.

The Jan. 19 Christian Science Monitor ran a story quoting the Israeli paper Haaretz and the Israeli minister of defence and an Israeli intelligence report to the American general staff that Iran is NOT developing a nuclear bomb.

In the discussion about "Most Palestinians support killing Jews," Berserk noted: "A Christian pastor in Iran has just been condemned to death by Shariah law for refusing to recant his conversion from Islam." 

I thought the issue of Iranian persecution of minorities deserved its own thread. So here are two articles on the matter...

Iran’s history of persecution

By Daniel D. Tovrov | September 29, 2011 6:06 PM EDT

By Azarmehr, an Iranian blogger now living in the UK

http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2011/08/republic-of-no-fun.html

A few weeks ago, our news media carried many stories about the election in Iran and about the protests that followed. Much of that information came from twitter messages coming out of Iran.\, apparently thousand of them, and most of them critical of the government.

Predictably, that led to a lot of speculation that a new age of communication was upon us. No longer could oppressive governments control the news. The people, with twitter, are now in touch with each other, and the truth will out.

Maybe, but....

Stardust can not start a thread I am posting it for her.Can Obama make peace with Iran?