This story from the National Post caught my eye as I skimmed the pages over lunch. Nothing like it to mess with your digestion!

Iran's ambassador to Britain admitted yesterday that Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was murdered by Iranian security officials -- radically reversing the official position of the Iranian judiciary, which has said her death had been an accident.

"I don't support the killing by some shrewd security forces of that lady," Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli said at Saint Antony's College at the University of Oxford. "We are sorry for it."

Mr. Adeli's startling statement contradicts the formal explanation for Ms. Kazemi's death given last July by Iranian authorities, following the acquittal "due to lack of sufficient evidence," of Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, an intelligence ministry agent who had been charged with her death.

At the time, the hard-line judiciary claimed Mr. Ahmadi's acquittal proved Ms. Kazemi died when she fainted and hit her head.

So now Iran has admitted to it, when the case has already been thrown out. What is Canada going to do about it? Will they keep their mouths shut? Or will they, at the very least, stand behind the United States when they start busting heads over Iran's nuclear program?

Canada has turned into a very weak country, just while it seems the Americans have been flexing their muscles. But now it's on of our own dead. Murdered - let's all get used to the word, since they've admitted to it.

In 2003, Ms. Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, was working in Iran with the permission of the Iranian government. On June 23, she was arrested while taking photographs outside the Evin Prison in Tehran, where demonstrators were protesting the incarceration of students and other democrats.

Ms. Kazemi, 56, was arrested and taken inside the prison, where she was subjected to more than three days of interrogation.

Four days later, she was taken to a hospital, bleeding from her nose and mouth. She died July 10.

Iranian authorities initially claimed she had died because of a stroke, before admitting her death was likely the result of head injuries and charging Mr. Ahmadi with quasi-intentional murder.

Her case became a source of tension between reformers in Iran's parliament and conservatives in the religious judiciary and Council of Guardians, who hold real power in Iran.

At one point, a spokesman for the reform-leaning intelligence ministry promised to identify the alleged real killer, if the judiciary allowed it.

But the judiciary declared Ms. Kazemi's death an accident and effectively closed the case.

How does Iran categorize the murder of the photo journalist? By equating it with a Canadian police officer shooting an armed criminal!

Mr. Adeli claimed Ms. Kazemi's murder was an isolated event, similar to the Port Moody, B.C., police shooting Keyvan Tabesh, an 18-year-old who was shot and killed after he charged a plainclothes officer with a machete.

"May I speak frankly?" Mr. Adeli said. "It is compatible with police in Vancouver shooting that Iranian boy, just because they thought he was running after that lady."

An eighteen year old male armed with a machete, running after a woman, gets himself shot by the cops (well done to the cops, by the way), and that's the same as cracking the skull of an unarmed woman taking pictures in Tehran?