Our neighbor to the north, Iran
: I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and hope that he was misquoted by the Iranian official news agency but here's what they say Canada's deputy prime minister said in Tehran:
Zanjan, June 29, IRNA -- Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Patric Carson said here on Sunday that Tehran and Ottawa shared identical problems with Washington.
Carson, who is heading an economic delegation to this northwestern province, said that his country has economic problem with the US while Iran's problem with Washington is political.
The Canadian official made the remark in a meeting with deputy governor general of the province for planning, Ahmad Sorkhpar.
If true, this is appalling.
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: UPDATE: Comments, below, make it clear that the deputy PM is not Patric Carson and no one can find any Patric Carson in the government of Canada. So Iran lies. Surprise, surprise.500 hp scanner
Beeb not kosher
: Israel may be going a bit far but it got so fed up with the BBC and its "repeated 'demonisation' of the country" that it has cut off the network:
The move will involve a refusal to put up official spokesmen for BBC interviews. There will be visa restrictions, not imposed on other news organisations in Israel, to ensure that the bureau chief is rotated every few months and to make it hard for BBC staff to report.
“The BBC will discover that bureaucracy can be applied with goodwill or without it. And after the way that they have repeatedly tried to delegitimise the state of Israel, we, as hosts, have none left for them,” Daniel Seaman, director of the government press office, told The Times.
“We see the well-known pro-Arab touch of the Foreign Office and the traditional anti-Semitism of parts of Britain’s Establishment in the way they are acting against us.”
By cutting off the BBC, they also cut off information and cutting off the BBC's audience and that is a mistake. But the frustration is clear. [via
Israpundit]
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