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May 20, 2006

Did Iran Do It, or Didn't They?

Yesterday I wrote about the news that Iran had passed a law that would require color-coded arm bands for Jews, Christians, and others – a move reminiscent of Hitler's Nazi regime.

The link to the story was soon broken as people began to come forward to counter the story. Iranian officials are categorically denying that the story is true.

The law that was passed, they say, merely institutes an Islamic dress code, or "national uniform," for Muslim women.

[A] spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa, Hormoz Ghahremani, sent an email to the Canada’s National Post Friday to “categorically reject the news item. These kinds of slanderous accusations are part of a smear campaign against Iran by vested interests, which needs to be denounced at every step.”

The question I'm asking is how did this kind of report happen? Did the Canadian press follow journalistic ethics and verify the story? Considering the rapid spread of the story around the world (sans the withdrawal of the story by a skeptical Canadian press) and the linking of the story to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent statements that the Holocaust did not happen and that Israel will someday cease to exist, one has to wonder whether the story was manufactured and intentionally spread to turn the tide against diplomacy with Iran. Meanwhile, Nazi sympathizers are planning a rally in support of Ahmadinejad.

Pardon me, but with a history of manufacturing documents to achieve its aims, I don't have a lot of faith in this Administration and its partners around the world, and it would not surprise me to see this sort of thing planted to build support for Bush's planned war on Iran.

Posted by Becky at May 20, 2006 10:07 AM

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