Iran eyes badges for Jews

[Shelbay]

I don't even think its respectful to the jewish people to compare their loss from the Nazis to a ban on gay marriages..that is taking away from what the concern with IRAN is imo on this issue. Great Spirit..someone offered to buy you airfare..as an American do you think I would believe a Canadian source quicker than my own Country? And I'm not sure but didnt Iran say Israel HAD to go?

[StPlacidus]

So out of the 23 news sources from the above link, your going to go with the only one, 940 News, as an official source? What happens when BBC reports it???

I know this country isn't perfect, hell, we got politicians. They're all crooked! But I do know that we are a hell of a lot better than Iran for freedoms.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

Checked out them news source you put up and most of them go back to the original source and the rest dont have links to their source....Dubious to say the least..
The source of the Iran story
"The Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black to combat what he saw as an 'over-liberalizing' of editorial policy in Canadian newspapers. Black built the new paper around the existing Financial Post, an established business-oriented newspaper in Toronto which he purchased from Sun Media in 1997. (Financial Post was retained as the name of the new paper's business section.)

From the beginning the Post has had a strongly conservative editorial stance, and has an editorial page featuring the writings of many prominent neo-conservatives and libertarians from the United States and Canada, including Diane Francis, Andrew Coyne, Mark Steyn and David Frum. This stance is typically mocked by those who refer to the paper as the "Fascist Post" or the "Zionist Post". A number of newspaper stands in Toronto holding the National Post for sale have been vandalized with these statements."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Post

[Psycho4Bud]

So you don't think that Israeli papers know the truth on this issue. Considering they are in the region, I would think they would have a story of this magnitude confirmed.

[Shelbay]

This will push Israel?

[StPlacidus]

No the Western press is misleading all you have to do is go back to the lead up to the Iraq war. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

War sells....Go-ahead & convinces others that we need to bomb Iran....

[Breukelen advocaat]

Don't forget the hostages that they took in 1979.

Thanks to the Ayatollah, and the hostage Crisis, Reagan beat Jimmy Carter. George HW Bush was a VP, and then president, and then his son - twice.


Carter should have deposed the Ayatollah Khomeini (Ruhollah Mousavi),
a religious radical fundamentalist, and replaced him with a secular government run by a Shah.

If there never had been a hostage situation in Iran, the world may have been very different today.

[StPlacidus]

Retraction of this story from your own link P4B-----

Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue

Chris Wattie
National Post

Friday, May 19, 2006


Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the countryâ??s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.

The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.

A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterdayâ??s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iranâ??s majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.


Hormoz Ghahremani, a spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa, said in an e-mail to the Post yesterday that, â??We wish to categorically reject the news item.

â??These kinds of slanderous accusations are part of a smear campaign against Iran by vested interests, which needs to be denounced at every step.â?�

Sam Kermanian, of the U.S.-based Iranian-American Jewish Federation, said in an interview from Los Angeles that he had contacted members of the Jewish community in Iran â?? including the lone Jewish member of the Iranian parliament â?? and they denied any such measure was in place.

Mr. Kermanian said the subject of â??what to do with religious minoritiesâ?� came up during debates leading up to the passing of the dress code law.

â??It is possible that some ideas might have been thrown around,â?� he said. â??But to the best of my knowledge the final version of the law does not demand any identifying marks by the religious minority groups.â?�

Ali Reza Nourizadeh, an Iranian commentator on political affairs in London, suggested that the requirements for badges or insignia for religious minorities was part of a â??secondary motionâ?� introduced in parliament, addressing the changes specific to the attire of people of various religious backgrounds.

Mr. Nourizadeh said that motion was very minor and was far from being passed into law.

That account could not be confirmed.

Meir Javdanfar, an Israeli expert on Iran and the Middle East who was born and raised in Tehran, said yesterday that he was unable to find any evidence that such a law had been passed.

â??None of my sources in Iran have heard of this,â?� he said. â??I donâ??t know where this comes from.â?�

Mr. Javdanfar said that not all clauses of the law had been passed through the parliament and said the requirement that Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians wear special insignia might be part of an older version of the Islamic dress law, which was first written two years ago.

â??In any case, there is no way that they could have forced Iranian Jews to wear this,â?� he added. â??The Iranian people would never stand for it.â?�


National Post, with files from Allan Woods, CanWest News Service
© National Post 2006

[skarz]

More concerned about Americans!!?? Lets try this...How bout I book you a one way flight to Iran then sit back and count the seconds before you return kissing and praising the red, white and blue...?

Iran suffers under extreme mainstream media stereotypes. Last year a bunch of pro snowboarders went there because Iran has some amazing ski resorts, and they were afraid they were going to get killed and all that jazz before they actuallly got there. Once they landed they found out it was very peaceful and everyone was very accepting of them no matter what town they went too. It's a great article in the magazine called "The Snowboard Journal" for anyone interested.

[krustythfreakinclown]

All I can say is, "What Jewish person in their right mind would spend a SECOND in Iran?"

I mean, Iran's clerics are just one step above the Taliban on the nutty-meter. Ever since the radicals in 1979 took power, I would have thought Iranian Jews (wow, what a weird combination) would have gotten the hell out of there in no time! Yet, 27 years later, there are still 25,000 Jews in Iran? That's fucking stupid!

Shit, I'd move out of my country in a second if I was a member of any group that has suffered systematic persecution for thousands of years, if a cabal of my enemies gained total control of the country. To stick around is nuts! Hell, I'd risk my life to leave the country illegally.

[Bong30]

All I can say is, "What Jewish person in their right mind would spend a SECOND in Iran?"

I mean, Iran's clerics are just one step above the Taliban on the nutty-meter. Ever since the radicals in 1979 took power, I would have thought Iranian Jews (wow, what a weird combination) would have gotten the hell out of there in no time! Yet, 27 years later, there are still 25,000 Jews in Iran? That's fucking stupid!

Shit, I'd move out of my country in a second if I was a member of any group that has suffered systematic persecution for thousands of years, if a cabal of my enemies gained total control of the country. To stick around is nuts! Hell, I'd risk my life to leave the country illegally.

no shit to that