Iranian dress codes
Interesting wave of stories spreading out of Canada about an Iranian law on national dress
Here, for posterity, is some info on it from before the National Post story
National Post perspective from Amir Taheri
How clothes became politicized
Iran MPs turn to fashion
Dressed to Kill
Boycott Western Fashion
New dress code - Onset of hostility
Forced Arabization of Persia! - this is an interesting perspective
New dress requirement
Interesting how this story suddenly spun; and how the NP story was picked up so fast
Also, while there is an Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Orientation, at least as of a couple of weeks ago, he was not a Mostafa Pourharandi, but Hossein Saffar Harandi. Maybe they changed, or he is a sub-minister so obscure as to never before have been mentioned on the Web.
Interesting.
Here, for posterity, is some info on it from before the National Post story
National Post perspective from Amir Taheri
How clothes became politicized
Iran MPs turn to fashion
Dressed to Kill
Boycott Western Fashion
New dress code - Onset of hostility
Forced Arabization of Persia! - this is an interesting perspective
New dress requirement
Interesting how this story suddenly spun; and how the NP story was picked up so fast
Also, while there is an Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Orientation, at least as of a couple of weeks ago, he was not a Mostafa Pourharandi, but Hossein Saffar Harandi. Maybe they changed, or he is a sub-minister so obscure as to never before have been mentioned on the Web.
Interesting.
posted by Steinn at 4:24 PM
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Thankfully, it appears the bizarre Nazi-esque religious angle was a boondoggle constructed by iranian expats in Canada: see Matt Yglesias at TPM. To paraphrase Brad DeLong, the Iranians are often worse than we would imagine, but not worse than we can imagine.
Oh yeah, the National Post story was clearly wrong, what was fascinating was how with a little additional spin and creative interpretation a paid neocon speaker could plant a story in foreign media and light up the web. Meme is embedded where it was aimed, too late to fix that.
I'm still slightly bemused about the Minister of Islamic Orientation. Either they couldn't be bothered to look him up, or there is a poor low level minion being cited as the Minister.
Original story, including the outrage over the "arabization" of good heterodox Persians is quite fascinating
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