Governments around the world should shun Iran's incoming president based on his long-standing record of human rights abuses, a former Canadian prime minister argued Saturday in a speech to an international conference on the state of the middle-eastern country.
Stephen Harper's remarks came at a virtual sitting of the Free Iran World Summit. Canada's 22nd prime minister told attendees that hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi's rise to power is further evidence of escalating extremism at play in Iran.
The judiciary chief is set to formally take power next month, becoming the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the U.S. government even before entering office in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
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