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Plenty of people, including countless academics and large swaths of the diplomatic corps, are upset over the Harper government’s decision to sever ties with Iran. We’ll lose our influence! We need dialogue and diplomacy! And what about those wretched Iranian Canadians rotting in Tehran’s jails? We’ve thrown our principles to the wolves, all because of the Harper government’s rash, ideologically driven, radically unbalanced (read pro-Israel) foreign policy.