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His first mistake was going back to Iran
"Mr. Malekpour is not a Canadian citizen, but that does not absolve Canada of responsibility to speak for him. A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said “Canada remains deeply concerned by the continued flagrant disregard of the Iranian authorities for the rights of both Iranian and dual-national citizens.”
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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