Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says it’s “unacceptable” that Iran has launched attacks on commercial ships in recent days as it attempts to tighten its grip over the Strait of Hormuz.
Anand met with Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Thursday and she says Canada stands alongside Persian Gulf countries as Iran lashes out against them.
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Speaking with reporters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Anand says ceasefires are always fragile but it’s “unjustified” for Iran to strike civilian targets.
The comments follow new airstrikes the United States launched against Iran early Thursday, and as Tehran fired back at Gulf countries.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that recent Iranian attacks targeting ships transiting the strait, a major global trade choke point, ended the ceasefire.
Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters at the NATO summit Wednesday that Iran has been acting “irresponsibly” and described the U.S. response as “appropriate.”
PLEASE! TURN MIDDLE EAST INTO a GIANT PARKING LOT ! ENOUGH ALREADY
Dave
July 9, 2026 at 9:24 am
Only a fool takes anything Amand says seriously
Sadly Canada is full of intellectually lazy and emotionally unstable idiots
Yes and they are all politicians. They inhabit every level of the political spectrum from municipal to federal and beyond. This crop of politicians world wide have no brains and no balls.
@old guy A personal attack is by definition directed at one person, not a group. Eg. “Some” old people means some older people, not a specific person. It also does not target all older people. Finally, I did not say older people are juvenile. Good grief.
Ben, when you are a spectacular idiot, you deserve ridicule, this isn’t Liberal Day Camp for the sentience challenged.
@Ben (again)
Well here we have a classic “BEN” comment.
Older People are juvenile.
You claim you don’t like personal attacks and yet you paint older people with the same negative brush.
You will be old one day , if you make it, and you will still be as smart as you are now.
Time to drop some nukes on these Iranian cu nts. These mother fu *ckers will never settle for peace. They’ll just keep funding terrorism and trying to control international waters. Irradiate that f *ucking sh ithole once and for all!
@Anonymous I agree completely with you about personal attacks. They are juvenile and one one can respectfully disagree without resorting to these attacks. This is how some older adults behave.
The previous comment is from someone who had to resort to insults because he already lost the argument. He also doesn’t understand that even in the absence of a final peace agreement, an occupying country cannot transfer settlers onto someone else’s home, which is exactly what is happening multiple times daily in the West Bank, and has also happened in the Golan.
And if he is referring to the breakdown of the peace talks in the Clinton era, I would point him to the confirmations from Brzezinski that there never was a remotely viable offer from Ehud Barak. That is Clinton fiction to try to whitewash Bill and Hillary’s history, and to eliminate known facts like the assisination of Rabin by pro Bibi extremists, that ushered in his decades of power and abuse.
Palestinians don’t need to have a country to not be subject to settlers violence on their lands, period. Same goes to the people in Lebanon who have a right to not have their homes and churches bulldozed.
As for the reference to the Hague, the last I checked it is Bibi who is wanted by the International Court.
You are dumb. The land is not stolen. The Palestinians refuse statehood because they would be sent to the Hague in a heartbeat if they ever did.
You’re just an entitled bigot that has absolute garbage for brains.
Let me know when the Minister speaks out about the military campaign in Lebanon, the ongoing land theft there and in the Golan, as well as the extreme escalation in settler violence in the West Bank.
Jesus, listen to all the g*nocidal b*stards on here. Do you hear yourselves? No better than any terrorist, no better than Iran. Bunch of disgusting MAGA hyocrites.
Mark Carney is literally Superman.He could fly over to Iran and give them a good talking to.He doesn’t have to worry about bullets ,they would bounce off of him.All he has to do is get his cape and Spandex body suit back from Trudeau and Iran will big in big trouble
Suddenly Anand finds a voice on the matter.
Where has she been since Iran began targeting ships in the Strait ?
Let me guess. She has zero prior experience in Foreign Affairs so she just does what Carney tells her to do.
Hopefully she takes her pension and retires soon.
Nuke the f *ucking Iranians. Do the world a favor!
Everyone talks about how Iran is behaving but nobody will do anything about it. A bully will always be a bully as long as they get away with it. I feel sorry for the people living in Iran especially women.
Time to finish off the leadership in Iran. Kill them all.
Bomb Iran until it’s a smoldering crater
It’s a joke in Canada that politicians without any ability can take turns to be ministers. What a bizarre national politics
This is the same person who celebrated her party’s growing need for food banks.
The Carney government is taking a balanced approach to Iran and the US quagmire. It’s been critical of Iran, and has forcefully spoken up to the US many times stating that civilian casualties should be avoided.
Only a fool takes anything Amand says seriously
Sadly Canada is full of intellectually lazy and emotionally unstable idiots
But Trumps attacks that killed all those children were ok to her? His pedophilia is ok too according to Anand the Coward. She never calls out Trump or Nuttyyahhoo at all.
This Lib government is f*scist to the core and dirty like a toilet.