Dear Prime Minister Carney,
First of all, let us be clear that the regime in Iran has treated its citizens terribly, especially in recent weeks when it has murdered thousands of civilian protestors. There is no question that this regime would be better ended.
There is a very real question about the best way to do that, however. U.S. intervention -- to serve the financial interests of certain wealthy oligarchs -- has never been an effective way of replacing a human rights abusing regime with a human rights respecting one.
Your statements in support of the US/Israeli war on Iran are condemnable. Tens of thousands will likely be killed in the rogue states’ bid to balkanize Iran. Already hundreds of Iranians have been killed, including upwards of 100 in a strike on a girls elementary school in Minab, southern Iran.
Why have you said “Canada supports” the US/Israeli war when this unprovoked attack is clearly a violation of the UN charter? If international law only applies to the actions of countries we don't like and doesn't apply to the actions of Western countries, it's worthless and the worst kind of hypocrisy.
This act of unprovoked war only creates more instability in the world, more deaths of innocent civilians and more environmental destruction, speeding up our already careening race to reach unlivable conditions due to climate change.
It’s time to condemn the rogue Israeli and US governments. Canada must stop being subservient to the US empire’s ‘might makes right’ policy around the world.
Letter adapted from Just Peace Advocates.
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