"We don't need no steenkin' Iranian badges..."
Posted on 05/20/2006 2:42:38 AM PDT by robert jones
Jewish MP denies Iran badge plan
From correspondents in Tehran
20may06
IRAN'S only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper overnight that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public so they can be identified.
"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," Maurice Motammed said in Tehran. "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain" by doing so.
The National Post newspaper quoted human rights groups as saying that Iran's parliament passed a law this week setting a public dress code and requiring non-Muslims to wear special insignia.
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on the front of their clothes, it said.
Mr Motammed said he had been present in parliament when a bill to promote "an Iranian and Islamic style of dress for women" was voted. "In the law, there is no mention of religious minorities," he added.
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baghdad bob lives
"We don't need no steenkin' Iranian badges..."
History to repeat itself?
From NewsBusters.com
god, i hope not
Yeah. This allegation is FALSE (the yellow if for Christians and Red for Jews)....(/Clinton voice, /sarc)
The Mysterious Reappearance of Mr. M Iran’s Jewish MP (Maurice Motamed) propaganda tool.
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