Iran’s security forces have suppressed earlier protests for human rights and democracy. Yet, regrettably, during Iran’s mass protests in 2017, the Trudeau government responded tepidly. Trudeau should similarly not mince words and explicitly put Canada on the side of the protesters. Iranian protesters are risking life and limb to fight a dictatorship that has oppressed them for four decades. Kaveh Shahrooz is a lawyer and a human rights activist.

Source: National Post November 20, 2019 18:00 UTC