Tuesday, May 23, 2006

iran "so far does not create a dress code"

* Eli Lake in the New York Sun :
"While the legislation considered in the Iranian parliament, the Majlis, so far does not create a dress code for Iran’s Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians - an echo of Nazi laws that required Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and communists to wear distinctive armbands and badges - the spokesman, Sam Kermanian, said yesterday that he suspected early reports of this kind may have been a trial balloon.
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But the prospect of a dress code for non-Muslims in an Iranian theocracy is not so far-fetched. Iranian religious leaders historically mandated dress codes for non-Muslims. "
he ends by quoting Kermanian:
""And considering the anti-Semitic environment in Iran, which exists due to government-sanctioned propaganda, this sort of support is a matter of great comfort to us now.""
please.rot.in.hell.
jim has more.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Antonia Zerbisias at azerbic sourced the story of the color badges to Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri who is a member of Benador Associates:

"Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for Perle, Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neoconservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months. Also found among her client list are other major war-boosters, including former New York Times executive editor and now New York Daily News columnist, A. M. Rosenthal; Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer; the Council on Foreign Relations' resident imperialist Max Boot; and Victor Davis Hanson, a blood-and-guts classicist and one of Vice President Dick Cheney's favorite dinner guests."

I wonder how many media outlets corrected the story?

Anonymous said...

I think this has been noted already. Sorry. (I need to do more drinking.)

lukery said...

bottoms up :-)

Miguel said...

Have we had reports of "terrorist training camps" in Tehran yet?

When we hear those reports, we'll know the invasion is just weeks away...