Iran is using a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders as “pawns” to distract from its own “abhorrent record” on human rights, said a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
Iranian officials are “working very hard” to bring a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders to Tehran and address the Iranian parliament, said former Roseau River First Nation chief Terry Nelson after a meeting with an Iranian diplomat Monday.
Iranian officials are “working very hard” to bring a group of Manitoba First Nations leaders to Tehran and address the Iranian parliament, said former Roseau River First Nation chief Terry Nelson after a meeting with an Iranian diplomat Monday.
A former Manitoba chief’s attempt to land a meeting with the Iranian government won’t help the cause of First Nations people and simply give the regime in Tehran another chance to deflect attention from its own human rights abuses, says the chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Group for Human Rights in Iran.
A former Manitoba chief’s attempt to land a meeting with the Iranian government won’t help the cause of First Nations people and simply give the regime in Tehran another chance to deflect attention from its own human rights abuses, says the chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Group for Human Rights in Iran.
A former Manitoba chief who says the federal Aboriginal Affairs department orchestrated a “coup” against him plans to ask Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for permission to address Iran’s parliament on how Canada treats First Nations people.
