Iran Target of Apparent US Disinformation Ploy
A story authored by a prominent US neo-conservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive color badges circulated around the world this weekend before it was exposed as false.This is the story that was first published in the National Post, then picked up by a few other papers, causing quite a furor..
The article by a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-American Amir Taheri, was initially published in Friday's edition of Canada's National Post, which ran alongside the story a 1935 photograph of a Jewish businessman in Berlin with a yellow, six-pointed star sewn on his overcoat, as required by Nazi legislation at the time. The Post subsequently issued a retraction.
Read further to see the interesting 'provenance' of this covert smear-campaign and who were really behind it.
(From TruthOut.org .)
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