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EXPLOSIVE!!:The "yellow badges" story is spreading like wild fire as headline thru out the West.
I ask why is this immediately a headline based on hearsay only.
Of course, if proved true, war is an absolute certainty.
But if proved wrong, it reveals that war is STILL almost a certainty, as this would be a misinformation press release to create a war atmosphere by the good old U.S. propaganda machine.
<<Iran Considers Identity Badges For Jews, Christians

May 19, 2006 2:13 p.m. EST


Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer

Tehran, Iran (AHN)--Human rights groups are sounding alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear colored badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.

According to Canadian National Post, Iranian expatriates living in Canada confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical "standard Islamic garments."

Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.

The new law was drafted two years ago, but was stuck in the Iranian parliament until recently when it was revived at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Meanwhile, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has written to Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, protesting the Iranian law and calling on the international community to bring pressure on Iran to drop the measure.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, says, "The world should not ignore this," adding that, "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." >>