Canada and its 'out and out Zionist' prime minister have become the latest target of Iran's Press TV
After Canada’s severing of diplomatic relations with Iran, the one-time 'friendly face of the west' has become Press TV’s newest target
Press TV, Iran’s primary English-language broadcaster, went live last month with its latest report on the state of human rights in Canada.
Overtop archival footage of Niagara Falls, the Athabasca Oil Sands and Parliament Hill protests, reporter Ali Dashti outlined Ottawa’s policies to “steal indigenous children,” drive a pipeline to the West Coast in “ignorance of the First Nation land rights,” jail refugees arbitrarily and authorize heavy-handed crackdowns on student protesters in Montreal.
The anchor then introduced Vancouver-based “international lawyer” Alfred Webre to ask him why, despite such clear problems at home, Canada “accuses other countries, namely Iran, of human rights violations.”
Coming in on a grainy video feed, Mr. Webre explained that as an “out and out Zionist,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper is simply following the “same repressive policies within Canada that Israel follows within its own territories against the Palestinian people.”
The ultimate Zionist state under the British Crown and under Israel
His voice increasing in volume, Mr. Webre then outlined how Vancouver police conspired with serial killer Robert Pickton to commit ritual Satanic murders with high-ranking politicians and how, during her 1964 visit, Queen Elizabeth abducted 10 Aboriginal children who were never seen again.
Canada does this, he concluded, because it is “the ultimate Zionist state under the British Crown and under Israel.”
“Well, we’ll have to leave it there, thank you,” says the anchor.
A frozen country of 33 million has never loomed particularly large in the Iranian psyche. But after Canada’s surprise severing of diplomatic relations with the Islamic republic last September, the one-time “friendly face of the west” has become Press TV’s newest foreign target. Equipped with a small corps of Canadian correspondents and a rolodex of conspiracy theorists, the network — available through satellite and live-streaming on its web site — has spent the last six months pioneering that most unlikely of things: Anti-Canadian propaganda.
Before Joshua Blakeney became Press TV’s Calgary correspondent, he secured an $8,000 Alberta government grant through the University of Lethbridge to flesh out his theories that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were a U.S. plot to justify the War on Terror. He also regularly writes for Veterans Today, a misleadingly titled website which, of late, has hosted theories that the Sandy Hill massacre was a covert U.S. government operation carried out to justify tightened gun laws.
Mr. Blakeney’s recent work for Press TV includes a November report that the recent redesign of the Canadian $20 bill was evidence that Canada “remained an imperialist nation,” and a December segment on an Ipsos Reid poll saying that 90% of Canadian youth felt stressed about careers.
“Analysts observe that with the globalization of corporate power, global elites are able to blackmail governments into affording them concessions, such as deregulated labour laws,” he said during an introductory stand-up at a Calgary street corner.
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