Sorry EAO and other Iranian apologists, but in the Iran vs Israel argument, it boils down to one key issue: one country thinks the other has no right to exist while the other thinks the first shouldn't have the Bomb. Guess which one I side with?
I guess you must have missed this post to be so far off the mark:
...Iran is an oppressive religious state with an abysmal human rights record. I oppose Iran's discrimination based on religion, gender and sexual orientation. They have the death penalty. So I also don't support Canada having close relations with Iran.
I also find holocaust denial objectionable, but diversionary. Certainly Iran has more than a few Holocaust deniers. But they are words, not actions. Regarding the Holocaust, I believe it happened and that millinos of Jews, Roma, Slavs, Russian POWs, Jehovah Witnesses... perished in Nazi death camps. But I also support the right of historians to research these events and publish peer reviewed papers without harassment.
Both Iran and Israel practice religious based discrimination... just different religions, but the same kind of hate from my agnostic perspective. Both Israel and Iran have called for the other's down fall and neither side has threatened the other's genocide... despite distortions by Israel and their supporters to the contrary.
Israel possesses nukes and could vaporize Iran.
Iran possesses sufficient conventional weapons to vaporize Israel back, without resorting to WMDs.
Iran's human rights record is abysmal. They oppress women and homosexuals almost as badly as Saudi Arabia and a few other countries in the region.....