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Canada takes hard line against Iranian regime as elections loom

The loudest voice railing against the Iranian regime from North America is Canada's.The conservative administration of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken a hard-line stance against Iran as the Islamic Republic's June elections approach, mounting a social media campaign aimed at toppling Iran's theocratic rulers and leveling unusually harsh rhetoric at Tehran. Canada, which has an Iranian population of more than 100,000, pulled its diplomatic presence from Iran in September 2012, a move the U.S. made back in 1979, amid the hostage crisis."The regime is hollow," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a recent appeal to Iranians to vote out the regime. "It does not have the depth, the intellect, the humanity, or the humility to bring about a better future for its people. I believe the Iranian people want change."Canada announced this week that it will boycott a United Nations-sponsored conference on disarmament during the one week of the session that it is being chaired...

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