{"id":549675,"date":"2026-03-20T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:02:08","slug":"letter-canada-needs-to-rethink-support-for-u-s-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549675\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Canada needs to rethink support for U.S. in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: Canada needs to rethink support for U.S. in Iran<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 11:00 am Friday, March 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>As a dual Canadian\/American, I think our PM should think again about supporting the current American\/Israeli attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that the past three ayatollahs have led repressive, cruel dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>However, interventions by Republican presidents of the Dis-United States \u2014 either now or in 1953 \u2014 have been unmitigated disasters. <\/p>\n<p>Free Western powers should pressure America\/Israel and Iran to stop killing citizens and seek diplomatic solutions towards peace in the area and fair treatment of all inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Lindenberger, White Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Canada needs to rethink support for U.S. in Iran Published 11:00 am Friday, March 20, 2026 Editor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-549675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}