The
Editor, National Post
In your 19
May issue in a front page article by C. Wattie, you claim that the Iranian
regime’s parliament has passed a law demanding Jews and other religious
minorities wear coloured badges to be easily identifiable. This is false
information, as the dress code law that passed on May 15th has no
such reference. You claim that “Iranian expatriates living in
We,
Iranian expatriates, are aware that with the heightened tension over Iran’s
nuclear crisis, and taking advantage of the outrageous and unacceptable remarks
of the new President of the Islamic Republic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, denying the
Holocaust and wanting to wipe out Israel from the map, there is a concerted
effort on the part of some groups in the US, Europe, Israel, and here in Canada
to compare today’s Iran with Nazi Germany, and Ahmadinejad to Hitler. These
groups, among them some Iranians hope to push the
In the
first Persian Gulf War, misinformation about incubators stolen by Saddam
Hussein’s army in
The
Islamic Republic of Iran is a failed regime embroiled in deep economic, social
and political crises. Passing laws for unified dress codes is itself a sign of
desperation. Heightening international tensions and rhetoric are all to divert
attention from internal problems, and with the hope of mobilizing Iranian
people. State-led newspapers in
We are
astonished that your paper also chooses to misguide and misinform its readers.
It would only be appropriate that you correct the misinformation on the same
page that published the misleading article.
A war with
Signatories
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Saeed
Rahnema (Professor,
Shahrzad
Mojab (Professor,
Haideh
Moghissi (Professor,
Amir
Hassanpour (Professor,
Hassan
Zerehi, (Publisher, Editor in Chief, Shahrvand)
Nasrin
Almassi (Editor, Shahrvand)
Mohamad
Tavakoli-Targi (Professor, University
Bahman
Kalbassi (BA Political Science,
Parvin
Samadzadeh (Counsellor)
Mohamad
Tajdolati (Journalist, Managing
Shahram
Kholdi (Graduate Teaching Fellow, PhD Candidate,
Negar
Khalvati
Arash
Bateni (PhD Mechanical Engineering)
Victoria
Tahmasebi (PhD Social Political Thought)
Faranak
Farzad (MISt Candidate,
Yaser
Kerachian (PhD Candidate, Physics,
Behrang
Foroughi (PhD Candidate, OISE,
Dona
Robati (Poet and Journalist, Shahrvand)
Roshank
Razavi (MASc Environmental Engineering, Research Lead)
Azadeh
Rashvand (MA Candidate, Environmental Sciences,
Sina
Rahmani (Graduate Student, Comparative Literature,
Amir
Mehrasa (Translator)
Parisa
Jurabchi (Student, Vancouver)
Negar
Azmudeh (Lawyer, Vancouver)
Mina Zare
(Junior Urban Planner, Region of Peel)
Abdolreza
Moghaddam (PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering,
Maryam
Aghvami (Journalist, Senior VP Ethnic Media Press Council of
Neda Zare
(PhD Candidate Mathematics,
Binesh
Hassanpour (Dept. f Philosophy,
Siavosh
Taherifard (MA Candidate,
Ida Metahi
(MA student,
Afkham
Mardukhi (Mental Health Youth Counsellor)
Babak
Attaran Rezaei (MD)
Niaz
Salimi (CMC President)
Babak
Salari (Photographer,
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