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Kilgour: Harper was right to speak out on Iran

Free Iran 2018 The criticism levelled at former prime minister Stephen Harper for speaking to a “Free Iran” rally near Paris  last Saturday  is unfair. At that rally, Harper thanked the tens of thousands of participants for their “long battle for a free and democratic Iran,” without endorsing any political party. Harper wasn’t alone at the rally. Canada’s delegation at the event included the former prime minister, Liberal MP Judy Sgro, former Conservative foreign minister John Baird, former Liberal MP Raymonde Folco, former Conservative MP Paul Forseth, Liberal supporter David Matas, Conservative MP Candice Bergen, and me, a former Liberal cabinet minister. It was entirely appropriate to attend. The European Union removed the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (or  PMOI ) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2009, noting that it had been placed on the list purely to appease the mullahs in Iran. In 2010, the European Parliament passed a decla...