Iran's Nazi Dress Law

[ramin2999]

Hi guys can anyone form Iran comment on this subject

Some news orginizations have reported that Iran has passed a Dress Code for non muslims so the can be identified. Sounds somthing like Nazi Germany.

Anyways to me it sounds insane because i really dout somthing like this has passed. Plus throgh some of my own research i dont think its credible.
But i want to know what people in Iran Know about this.

P.S
Dont mined the title i just wrote it like that so i get your attention and you guys would respond.

here is the article

http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/4846.html

ot just type in Iran on google news

[Rasputin]

the complet articles about this topic ( i replied yesterday evening about this subject in News Politic Thread! ) .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052000467.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3252830,00.html

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=102360

Thx to Mr ramin for his colaboration!

[Sepideh_UK]

the complet articles about this topic ( i replied yesterday evening about this subject in News Politic Thread! ) .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/20/AR2006052000467.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3252830,00.html

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=102360

Thx to Mr ramin for his colaboration!

I aint in Iran but meh dad's family says yea apparently there is something like this going around!!

[ares]

It's possible that some of the legislatures would have proposed such a dress code. But it's implementation is very unlikely.

[Sepideh_UK]

TRUE!!

[mahsaak]

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaa khak bar saram che chizayeeee

[Rasputin]

Yellow journalism and chicken hawks
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - A story authored by a prominent US neo-conservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive colored badges circulated around the world last weekend before it was exposed as extremely dubious.

The article by a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-American Amir Taheri, was initially published in last Friday's edition of Canada's National Post, which ran alongside the story a 1935 photograph of a Jewish businessman in Berlin with a yellow six-pointed star sewn on his overcoat, as required by Nazi legislation at the time. The Post subsequently noted



denials of the story.

Taheri's story, however, was reprinted by the New York Post, which is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, and picked up by the Jerusalem Post, which also featured a photo of a yellow star from the Nazi era over a photo of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

Another neo-conservative publication, the New York Sun, also noted the story on Monday, claiming that the specific report that special badges were required by the legislation had been "incorrect". At the same time, however, the Sun quoted two Iranian-American foes of the Islamic Republic as suggesting that dress requirements for religious minorities were still being considered by Iran's ruling circles. It offered no evidence to support that assertion.

The story, which was also noted in the Australian press, comes at a moment of rising tensions between Iran and both Israel and the United States over Tehran's nuclear program, which, according to the latter two, is designed to produce nuclear weapons. Both the US and Israel have suggested that they may take military action against nuclear-related targets in Iran unless ongoing diplomatic efforts to freeze Tehran's program bear fruit.

Juan Cole, president of the US Middle East Studies Association (MESA), described the Taheri article and its appearance first in Canada's Post as "typical of black psychological operations campaigns", particularly in its origin in an "out-of-the-way newspaper that is then picked up by the mainstream press" - in this case, the Jerusalem Post and the New York Post. A former US intelligence official described the article's relatively obscure provenance as a "real sign of [a] disinformation operation".

Taheri's original article, "A color code for Iran's 'infidels'", dealt primarily with new legislation that it said was designed to ensure that Iranians wear "standard Islamic garments" that removed ethnic and class distinctions and that eliminated "the influence of the infidel" - presumably meaning the West - "on the way Iranians, especially the young, dress".

But it also noted in passing that it would "envisage" separate dress codes for religious minorities - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians - who would be required to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public "so that [Muslims] can avoid shaking hands with them by mistake, and thus [become] najis" (unclean).

In particular, he explained, religious minorities will "have to wear special insignia, known as zonnar, to indicate their non-Islamic faiths. Jews will be marked out with a yellow strip of cloth sewn in front of their clothes, while Christians will be assigned the color red. Zoroastrians end up with Persian blue as the color of their zonnar," he wrote.

While Taheri did not evoke the Nazi precedent in his column, the National Post asked its readers at the end of the piece, "Is Iran turning into the new Nazi Germany? Share your opinion online at national post.com."

That was compounded by the Post's publication of a front-page article by Chris Wattie that quoted unidentified "human-rights groups" as "raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear colored badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims".

"This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," Wattie quoted Rabbi Marvin Heir, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, as telling him. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis."

The story also quoted one Iranian exile living in Toronto as confirming the story, as well as Canadian Jewish leaders and Prime Minister Stephen Harper as denouncing the legislation and suggesting that it was consistent with other recent moves made by Tehran.

Similarly, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, who, however, denied any specific knowledge about the alleged measure, called it "despicable" and reminiscent of "Germany under Hitler".

In fact, however, the legislation contained "absolutely no mention of religious minorities", according to Hadi Ghaemi, the chief Iran researcher for Human Rights Watch, who said it included "only generalities with regard to promoting a national dress code and fashion industry that should be subsidized and supported by the government".

The article - and especially its attribution to "human-rights groups" - was particularly unfortunate, he said, because "it plays into the hands of the Iranian government that wants to discredit human-rights issues that are raised at the international level".

The actual legislation was indeed "a troubling development", but not for the reasons cited by the Post, he said, because "its main target is most probably Iranian women".

Other denunciations were quick to follow. One Jewish representative in the Iranian parliament, Maurice Motamed, insisted that color requirements for ethnic minorities had "never been proposed or discussed in parliament", let alone approved. "Such news," he told the Associated Press, "is an insult to religious minorities here.

"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," he told The Australian newspaper. "It is a lie ..."

Two Israel-based Iran experts, Menashe Amir and Meir Javedanfar, also denounced the original reports about the legislation, suggesting in a follow-up article in the Jerusalem Post on Monday that they were based on outdated speculation about the impact on non-Muslims of the adoption of Islamic dress standards.

Nonetheless, the Sun, without endorsing the specific contents of the National Post articles, refused to drop the story, quoting "a leading spokesman for Iranian Jews", the secretary general of the Iranian American Jewish Federation in Los Angeles, Sam Kermanian, as thanking "the world for its outcry" over the original reports and praising Taheri as "someone with fantastic credibility".
Taheri is a member of Benador Associates, a public relations firm that lists a large number of leading neo-conservatives, including American Enterprise Institute associates Richard Perle, David Frum, Michael Ledeen, Michael Rubin and Joshua Muravchik, among its clients.

Major boosters of the war with Iraq, Benador clients, who also include former Central Intelligence Agency chief James Woolsey and former Israeli minister Natan Sharansky, have also called for the US administration to take a hard line against Iran.

The newspapers that so far have run the story are similarly identified with a hard line against Tehran. The National Post, which was bought by CanWest Global Communications from Conrad Black, a close associate of Perle's, is controlled by David and Leonard Asper, who have accused the Canadian Broadcasting Corp of being anti-Israel, according to Marsha Cohen of Florida International University, who has closely followed the badges story.

Similarly, the Sun has taken positions consistent with the right-wing Likud Party in Israel on Middle East issues, while Murdoch owns the strongly pro-Israel Weekly Standard and Fox News, in addition to the New York Post.

"I think the way these stories played - particularly the references to the Holocaust - was designed to arouse and play upon concerns and accusations that Ahmadinejad is another Hitler who needs to be dealt with accordingly," noted Cohen, who added that the Iranian president's questioning of the Holocaust and aggressive statements about Israel had made such stories more credible.

[Sepideh_UK]

Cool, Thanx REDWINE

[Rasputin]

National Post apologizes for anti-Iran story

A Canadian newspaper apologized on Wednesday for a story that said Iran planned to force Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing to distinguish themselves from Muslims.

The conservative National Post ran the story on its front page last Friday along with a large photo from 1944 which showed a Hungarian couple wearing the yellow stars that the Nazis forced Jews to sew to their clothing.

The story, which included tough anti-Iran comments from prominent Jewish groups, was picked up widely by Web sites and by other media.

"Is Iran turning into the new Nazi Germany? Share your opinion online," the paper asked readers last Friday.

But the National Post, a long-time supporter of Israel and critic of Tehran, admitted on Wednesday it had not checked the piece thoroughly enough before running it.

"It is now clear the story is not true," National Post editor-in-chief Douglas Kelly wrote in a long editorial on page 2. "We apologize for the mistake and for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the broader public who read the story."

The story was based on a column by Iranian expatriate writer Amir Taheri, who said a law being debated by Iran's parliament would force Jews to sew a yellow strip of cloth to their clothes. Christians would wear a red strip while Zoroastrians would wear a blue one.

Iranian legislators dismissed the story.

The story and the column appeared at a time when the international community is pressuring Tehran over its nuclear program. Iran is also under fire for comments by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in which he doubted the scale of the Holocaust.

Asked about the Post story last Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Iran "is very capable of this kind of action." He added: "It boggles the mind that any regime on the face of the Earth would want to do anything that could remind people of Nazi Germany."

A spokesman for Harper said the prime minister had started off his comments with the words "If this is true."

[Rasputin]

Iran summons Venner over PM's remarks

Iran summoned Canada's ambassador to Tehran to explain his prime minister's remark suggesting the Iranian government might make religious minorities wear special clothes, a diplomat said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the remark last week in response to an article in the National Post that said Iran's religious minorities would be forced to wear garments that distinguished them from Muslims.

Iranian lawmakers, including the country's sole Jewish parliamentarian, have flatly denied the National Post story saying there is no mention of discriminatory measures against religious minorities in a new dress code bill.

"Ambassador Gordon Venner was summoned on Sunday afternoon, May 21," a Canadian diplomat said.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sparked fears in the international community by denying the Holocaust, in which the Nazis and their allies killed six million Jews, and by calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

"Unfortunately, we've seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," Harper had told reporters, but tempered his remarks by saying he did not know whether the story was true.

"It boggles the mind that any regime on the face of the Earth would want to do anything that could remind people of Nazi Germany," he added.

The National Post apologized on Wednesday and acknowledged its story was untrue.

Diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Tehran have been icy since 2003 when Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in custody in Tehran. Ottawa has also consistently taken a robust line on Iran's disputed atomic program.

[baba jun]

kaashki yeki mitunest inaaro kholasasho benevise ke manam mikhundam, va garna ta 6 sobh (alan inja 10:20 shabe) bayad faghat inaro bekhunam

[ares]

kholasasho ine ke ruznamae kanadai ettela'ate nadurust gozarish kard va, bayad va shayad, ruznamehai digar ham unra pakhsh kard.

[baba jun]

mersi Ares jun, damet khaili garm, manam fekr nakonam ke in akhbaar dorost bashe, faghat mikhaan jave zede irani dorost konan, yek khabareo pakhsh mikonan badam takzibesh mikonan amma in vasat 1000 ta dige khabaro tekraar kardan va onam beh natijeie k mikhaastan residan
valla dar n ke dar iran dar hale hazer hichi dorost nist, shekki nist amma in khabar gozaari ha ham cherto pert ziaad minevisan

[Sepideh_UK]

Hala Ruznaameye Canadai az Iran ozr khahi karde lol

[Rasputin]