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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: philv who wrote (10951)	5/20/2006 8:30:16 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Jewish MP denies Iran badge plan. heraldsun.news.com.au >>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. 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. MPs representing Iran's Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian minorities sit on all parliamentary committees, particularly the cultural one, he said. "This is an insult to the Iranian people and to religious minorities in Iran," he said.<< And which, as I said it was, is total mischief making. >>Australian Prime Minister John Howard said overnight, during an official visit to Ottawa, that "anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to civilised countries, if it's the case, and something that would just further indicate to me the nature of this regime. It would be appalling." Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he had only seen reports about the law but that he would not be surprised by them. "Unfortunately, we have seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," he said. "It think 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.<< Naturally, these eminent Western leaders still continue to blame the innocent and defamed party not the one who is guilty of the defamation and the smear, namely the Zionist Post newspaper. I suppose, as with the Mohammed cartoons, they'll say this is OK because of freedom of the press. That's Western democracy for you.