IslamOnline.com
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5/21/2006 9:30:00 AM GMT
Iran has strongly denied a recent article published by Canadian daily `National Post', claiming that the Islamic Republic may force non-Muslims to adopt a particular dress code in public.
In its letter to the Canadian daily, the press attaché of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, Hormuz Qahramani, dismissed the article.
In its Friday edition, Canada’s “National Post” claimed that "a new dress-code reportedly passed in Iran this past week mandates the government to make
sure that religious minorities -- Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians -- will have to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public."
"The Iranian government has envisioned that all Iranians wear standard Islamic garments designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions," the article further claimed, adding that the alleged dress code law stipulates that "Jews will have to wear a yellow band on their exterior in public, (Zoroastrians blue), while Christians will be required to don red ones."
The letter moreover, stressed that those claims against the Islamic Republic of Iran were part of certain states or individuals’ efforts against Iran.
Also Maurice Motamed, representative of the Jewish minority in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), dismissed the accusation as "complete fabrication."
Motamed noted that the alleged dress code was nothing by a lie, accusing those who believed and circulated that lies of using the fake report to achieve
certain political ends.
Motamed, moreover, said that such claims are an insult to the religious minorities living in Iran.
As expected, the U.S., together with Canada and Australia were quick to launch a severe attack against the Iranian government, already under mounting international pressure over its nuclear program.
Although they admitted they had no further details on the Non-Muslims dress code claim, the three states didn’t hesitate to launch an offensive, yet in
separate statements, with Washington and Ottawa seizing the chance to evoke the memory of the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
“If you did have such an occurrence, whether it was in Iran or elsewhere, it would certainly be despicable,” said U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
“I think it has clear echoes of Germany under Hitler.”
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URL of article: = http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/world_full_story.asp?service_id=2214
5/21/2006 9:30:00 AM GMT
Iran has strongly denied a recent article published by Canadian daily `National Post', claiming that the Islamic Republic may force non-Muslims to adopt a particular dress code in public.
In its letter to the Canadian daily, the press attaché of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, Hormuz Qahramani, dismissed the article.
In its Friday edition, Canada’s “National Post” claimed that "a new dress-code reportedly passed in Iran this past week mandates the government to make
sure that religious minorities -- Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians -- will have to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public."
"The Iranian government has envisioned that all Iranians wear standard Islamic garments designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions," the article further claimed, adding that the alleged dress code law stipulates that "Jews will have to wear a yellow band on their exterior in public, (Zoroastrians blue), while Christians will be required to don red ones."
The letter moreover, stressed that those claims against the Islamic Republic of Iran were part of certain states or individuals’ efforts against Iran.
Also Maurice Motamed, representative of the Jewish minority in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), dismissed the accusation as "complete fabrication."
Motamed noted that the alleged dress code was nothing by a lie, accusing those who believed and circulated that lies of using the fake report to achieve
certain political ends.
Motamed, moreover, said that such claims are an insult to the religious minorities living in Iran.
As expected, the U.S., together with Canada and Australia were quick to launch a severe attack against the Iranian government, already under mounting international pressure over its nuclear program.
Although they admitted they had no further details on the Non-Muslims dress code claim, the three states didn’t hesitate to launch an offensive, yet in
separate statements, with Washington and Ottawa seizing the chance to evoke the memory of the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
“If you did have such an occurrence, whether it was in Iran or elsewhere, it would certainly be despicable,” said U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
“I think it has clear echoes of Germany under Hitler.”
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Or Iraq under u.s.