Should goverment in Canada keep good foreign relationship with iran?

Should Government in Canada Keep Good Foreign Relationship with Iran?
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Introduction
Days after Canada as an independent state announced the decision to cut its official relations with Iran, there were mixed reactions from different quarters. The allies and advocates of the current government appeared to be quite enthusiastic about the decision as they supported it openly. On the other hand, various foreign policy analysts publicly aired out their displeasure at the decision and the timing. A good number of them were quite displeased with the manner in which this was done. A senior government official who is attached to the foreign affairs office, just abruptly arrived at the Iranian embassy in the country’s capital delivering a mail indicating that the Iranian diplomats were no longer welcome in the country. The mail further went ahead to inform them that they only had five days to leave. At that same time, Canada’s diplomats were already packing ready to live the Iranian territory with immediate effect (Canadian Press, 2012). Obviously, Israel and its leadership were the first people to applause this move claiming that the country had set an example to the world that had to be seen as a courageous step towards protecting the security interest off the world. The Israeli Prime Minister specifically stated, (2012) “We have to build a wall, not of silence, but of condemnation and resolve. And Canada just put a very big brick in that wall.” Critics may disagree with this fact, but it obviously holds some ground. The government mentioned a number of reasons why this action had to be taken. The minister for foreign affairs mentioned “this was due to Iran’s support for the Assad regime in Syria; refusal to abide by UN resolutions on nuclear proliferation; anti-Semitic rhetoric towards Israel; human rights violations; support for terrorism; and, disregard for the safety and protection of diplomatic personnel” (Muller, 2012). The Canadian government should not keep good relations with Iran because the latter is a threat to the world peace, and disrespects human rights.
Canada’s decision was a bold one that obviously surprised many people. Various prominent voices spoke against the move terming it stupid. They raised the fact that the move would undoubtedly thwart any likelihood of further relations with Iraq whether pleasant or not. They held the opinion that the action had minimized the country’s options that had the capacity to quash a flare-up (Schwartz, 2012). Despite all this concerns, it must be noted that the unsolved problems between Canada and Iran go back, about seven years ago, the two countries were in the middle of a serious confrontation. The source of the problem was the detainment of a journalist with a dual Canadian and Iranian citizenship. The journalist at the center of all this was Zahra Kazemi. After it was reported that Zahra had passed on, the Iranian government ...