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Iran's ideology 'evil,' Harper tells U.S. paper (REUTERS NEWS AGENCY, 3/01/09)

The ideology of the Iranian government is "evil," Prime Minister Stephen Harper says.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, Harper criticized Iran, which the West accuses of covertly seeking to build nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charge.

"It concerns me that we have a regime with both an ideology that is obviously evil, combined with a desire to procure technology to act on that ideology," Harper said, as reported in the newspaper's online edition late Friday.