The Latest Neocon Lie About Iran
GARY LEUPP
Now that Canada's National Post has apologized for the disinformational article about Iran it published on its front page last Friday, one should inquire as to how this happened in the first place. The Post had reported that on May 15, the Iranian Parliament had passed a law establishing "separate dress codes for religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public. The new codes would enable Muslims to easily recognize non-Muslims so that they can avoid shaking hands with them by mistake, and thus becoming najis (unclean)." This was absurd. The one Jewish member of the 190-member Iranian Majlis, Moris Motamed, among others refuted it noting that Iranians would never put up with such a law. He added, "Our enemies seek to create tension among the religious minorities with such news and to exploit the situation to their benefit."
The legislator must surely count Iranian-American journalist Amir Taheri, author of the nonsense, among these enemies. …
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