American Jewish Congress Council for World Jewry Labels Iran's Holocaust-Mimicking Clothing Law a Head Long Retreat to Dark Ages

U.S. Newswire, May, 2006

NEW YORK, May 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A state like Iran which threatens neighbors with extinction and routinely uses violence and terrorism as deliberate instruments of state policy must be a pariah state and recognized as such by all civilized nations. Now Iran's Parliament, the Majlis, again departs from universally accepted norms not only with regard to other states, but towards its own citizens, proposing to color-code them by faith. It thus adds force to its head long retreat towards the dark ages.

The newly passed Iranian dress code would oblige Moslems to wear "standard Islamic ...