Jews in Iran to wear mandatory yellow ribbons.

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Exiles: Iran Jews to wear yellow ribbons

Iranian expatriates reveal that ‘National Uniform Law’ authorized by Iranian parliament includes clause obligating Iranian Jews to wear yellow ribbon; Christians, other minority members to wear colored ribbons as well. ‘If law passes non-Muslims’ lives will become intolerable
Yitzhak Benhorin

Responding to a report Friday that a new law in Iran would force Jewish citizens to don a yellow armband, the United States government said it was looking into matter. US State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said of the alleged law, “There is a parliamentary law whose exact nature is unclear and is being looked into.”

With that, McCormack stressed that "If you did have such an occurrence, whether it was in Iran or elsewhere, it would certainly be despicable."

"I think it has clear echoes of Germany under Hitler," he added.


National Uniform Law

Iranian expatriates said Friday that the "National Uniform Law" authorized by the Iranian parliament a few days ago, which is aimed at getting “Western” style clothing off the streets and advancing more traditional “Islamic” attire, also includes a clause obligating Iranian Jews to wear a yellow ribbon.

Members of the country’s Christian minority will be forces to wear a red ribbon, while those practicing the ancient Persian religion will be obligated to place a blue ribbon on their clothes.

The new law is expected to go into effect within the next few months after it is authorized by Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Shortly after the report was published in Canada’s National Post, however, the newspaper printed a second article expressing reservations about its legitimacy, saying that many experts doubt the existence of the supposed Iranian law. The Iranian Embassy in Canada also denied the reports, the newspaper said.

Ali Behroozian, an Iranian currently residing in Toronto, said that should the law pass the lives of Iranians belonging to the non-Muslim minorities will become intolerable.

"They have all been persecuted for a while, but these new dress rules are going to make things worse for them," he said.

'Iranian regime has completely lost its mind'

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said Friday in response to reports that a new Iranian law may require Jews to wear a yellow armband, that ““he who will force Jews, wherever they may be, to wear yellow badges will eventually find himself in a casket covered in black cloth.”

Although the report is unconfirmed, Iranian expatriates in Canada told the National Post that a new “National Uniform Law” will require members of minority groups to wear identifying armbands: Jews would wear yellow ones, while Christians would don red bands and Persians – blue. According to the report, the new law which was approved in the Iranian parliament, would be applied in the upcoming months if it is okayed by Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Minister Ophir Pines, a member of the Political-Security Cabinet requested of the Cabinet Secretary that the issue be brought up on the agenda of the next government meeting. Pines said, “The state of Israel was established after the Holocaust, to prevent its recurrence. The yellow badge in Iran is a red light that obligates us to enlist the whole world in light of what is going on there.” Pines suggested that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put the matter as a top priority during his upcoming diplomatic visit to Washington.

Opposition parties slammed the report as well. Meretz Chairman Dr. Yossi Beilin said that “the moment Iranian Jews are told to wear a yellow ribbon, Israel will have to prove that there is a significance to the existence of a Jewish state after the Holocaust.”

“Israel cannot suffice with criticisms, and it will have to act to move all Jews that want to leave Iran, and stand at the forefront of isolating the insane and Hitlerian Iranian leadership from the government,” Beilin said.

'Closer and closer to Nazi ideology'

Chairman of the Leonid Nevzlin, chairman of the Diaspora Museum Board of Governors, called on Jews around the world to wear a yellow ribbon. Nevzlin said: “Iran is using Hitler’s methods of exterminating the Jewish people, and the whole world must unite against the threat to the free world.”

Rabbi Marvin Hier, who heads the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said that Iran is getting "closer and closer to the Nazi ideology," adding that only an international outcry can prevent the law from going into effect.

Heir demanded that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan address the matter at once.

"The world ignored Hitler for many years; he was dismissed as a demagogue, they said he'd never come to power - and we were all wrong," he said.

Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Wiesenthal Center in Israel, said in response, “This is simply a catastrophe; it automatically brings one back to the Holocaust, and we do not need to remind the Israeli public that the yellow badges came just before the expulsion and extermination.

“There is no consolation in the fact that Christians are being labeled as well. The Iranian regime has completely lost its mind. The world cannot stand idly by, and I’m sure this development will place the Iranian issue at the top of the agenda during Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s visit to Washington,” he said.
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It'll be interesting to see if this is all bullshit, or if it actually comes to pass.
 
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's new dress code bill is aimed at encouraging designers to work on imaginative Islamic clothing, lawmakers said on Sunday, dismissing a report that the bill sought special outfits for religious minorities.

Canada's National Post on Friday reported the draft bill approved last week would force Jews, Christians and other religious minorities such as Zoroastrians to wear colour-coded clothes to distinguish them from Muslims.

A copy of the bill obtained by Reuters contained no such references. Reuters correspondents who followed the dress code session in parliament as it was broadcast on state radio heard no discussion of proscriptions for religious minorities.

Senior parliamentarian Mohsen Yahyavi described the Canadian report as "completely false".

"The bill aims to support those designers that produce clothes that are more compatible with Islam, but there will be no ban on the wearing of other designs," he told Reuters.

Iran's Jewish MP Moris Motamed also agreed the bill made no attempt to force special garments on the minorities.

"There is no single word in the bill about a special design or colour for the religious minority groups," he said.

"Our enemies seek to create tension among the religious minorities with such news and to exploit the situation to their benefit," he added.

The parliamentary bill follows a call from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who said two years ago Iranians should design a national costume and not take their lead from Western fashion magazines.

The bill has only been approved as an outline. The details must be agreed then sent to the Guardian Council, Iran's constitutional watchdog, for approval.

Iran has strict Islamic dress codes under which women must cover their hair and hide the shape of their bodies with loose-fitting clothes. Police and Islamic basij militias intermittently clamp down on women who flout the rules.

Religious minorities are largely tolerated in Iran, have freedom of worship and some exemptions from the Islamic Republic's strict rules in the private spaces of their own communities.

There are, however, certain military and medical jobs they are barred from and there are occasional scares for the 25,000-member Jewish community which has expressed its fears about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust.
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Funny to see how western info media tries to inflate everything negative 'bout Iran
 
Funny to see how western info media tries to inflate everything negative 'bout Iran
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Well if they can't find any WMDs then a dress code will do, I suppose. After all the difference between Iran and Iraq is like just one letter, that has got to be worth something :roll:
Anyway the media inflates bad stuff for ratings, it just happens that inflating bad stuff about countries in the Middle East could get more ratings than doing the same with some Eastern Europe news... Always about the $$$$$
 
Since when (other than Israel) have Jews not been the subjects of irrational prejudices?

Does this, in any way, differ from the massive amounts of racial abuse that anyone "middle eastern" (and that is, indeed, often the term used by current bigots) suffers in "western countries"?

Oh, right, this one's Kolor Koded.
 
Iranian expatriates reveal that ‘National Uniform Law’ authorized by Iranian parliament includes clause obligating Iranian Jews to wear yellow ribbon; Christians, other minority members to wear colored ribbons as well.
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Oh, yes, it's always about the Jews. NM the law applies to ALL non-Muslims as well. Let's talk about the Jews! :roll:

Rabbi Marvin Hier, .
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Hitler? :freak:
 
maybe the thing is that the last time the jews were forced to wear ribbons identifying them as jews were in the holocaust... linking identifying cloths to jews is a bit sensitive issue don't you think?
"it's always about the Jews"... meh, like all we do i whine how everybody hates us when merely half a century ago we were nearly wiped out because of this hatred...
when you reply, please mention if you consider yourself an antisemite or not, so that i'll know if there's a point to continue this discussion...
 
oh... thanks Briosafreak, didn't know that :)
but nevertheless in my opinion silencer's post was out of place...
 
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...while those practicing the ancient Persian religion will be obligated to place a blue ribbon on their clothes.
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You mean Zoroastrianism? *Sigh*

Sunny, I agree with Silencer here. The law was reported to apply to the religious minorities in Iran. However, this isn't sensational enough, so the Jewish aspect of religious minorities become the major point of the articles about this law. Obviously to inspire thoughts of the holocaust in the readers. It also downplays the fact that, if this law was real, that Christians and Zoroastrians would be subject to the exact same requirements.

Familiar with Godwin's Law? I would say that it applies just as well to journalism.
 
sunny jim said:
when you reply, please mention if you consider yourself an antisemite or not, so that i'll know if there's a point to continue this discussion...
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Ah, but why do I have to take sides? If I'm pro or anit? What does it mean? I've no prejudice to a Jew as a person, I know a few, I think some of them are all right and some are real assholes, which makes them no better or worse than any other group of people I know.

But whining everytime Jews are oppressed is almost as bad as whining everytime an American citizen dies in an end-of-the-world country where thousands die each day in a civil war or from famine.

So whatever larum you might try to evoke - I call it bulshitting, especially if the color-coding were to apply to all faiths.
 
Little bit off topic but still...

I just finished an article i did at the uni about Iran.

The main idea was to look closely at one of the biggest morning papers reports of Iran and their nuclear-program.

The interest of this issue was overwhelming, over 200 articles in ~ 2 years time.

Also the word "threat" was linked together with Iran in many head lines.
But if US did something that easily could be seens as a threat there was always a mutch more smooth description like :

"US shaprens the tone vs Iran",
"US prepared to use military force in Iran" etc.
 
My bad, dudes. I'm gullible when it comes to matters outside of teh punk rawks.
 
Silencer said:
sunny jim said:
when you reply, please mention if you consider yourself an antisemite or not, so that i'll know if there's a point to continue this discussion...
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Ah, but why do I have to take sides? If I'm pro or anit? What does it mean? I've no prejudice to a Jew as a person, I know a few, I think some of them are all right and some are real assholes, which makes them no better or worse than any other group of people I know.

But whining everytime Jews are oppressed is almost as bad as whining everytime an American citizen dies in an end-of-the-world country where thousands die each day in a civil war or from famine.

So whatever larum you might try to evoke - I call it bulshitting, especially if the color-coding were to apply to all faiths.
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err.. we don't whine that much :) this stuff don't happen too often... or maybe i'm unaware of it...
 
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