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url=http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=636796]Iranians mock Netanyahu's jeans remark on social media | Maan News Agency[/url]
Iranians mock Netanyahu's jeans remark on social media
TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iranians hit back at Benjamin Netanyahu's suggestion that they were banned from wearing jeans and listening to Western music, mocking the Israeli premier's comments on social websites Monday.In an interview with BBC Persian television broadcast Saturday, Netanyahu had said "if Iranians were free, they would wear jeans and listen to Western music."Netanyahu has sought to portray Iranian President Hassan Rouhani -- a moderate elected in June -- as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" in order to maintain international pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.But his comments about jeans and music brought a storm of mockery online. By Sunday a Facebook page called "Our jeans in Netanyahu's face, Bibi watch out," had appeared, posting dozens of pictures of young Iranians wearing jeans.Although Iran maintains an Islamic dress code which requires women to cover their hair and men to wear shorts, jeans are legal. While some Western music, such as rap, is not available in licensed music stores, many young people download foreign artists' work.
By Monday, the page had attracted more than 600 followers, with hundreds of comments."He thinks he saw our bomb but he hasn't seen our jeans," one user wrote, referring to Netanyahu's repeated allegations that Iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapons, charges denied by Tehran.*"Even our ancestors wore jeans," another netizen wrote, posting a photoshopped picture of an Achaemenid soldier from 500 BC wearing jeans.*
What a foolish man Netanyahu is disclosing himself to be!
He has made himself a laughing stock yet one more time!
Photos of Iranian women with their jeans and Western music
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201310071822-0023090
Iran And Israel Go To Battle ... Over Denim : Parallels : NPR
Iranians mock Netanyahu's jeans remark on social media
TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iranians hit back at Benjamin Netanyahu's suggestion that they were banned from wearing jeans and listening to Western music, mocking the Israeli premier's comments on social websites Monday.In an interview with BBC Persian television broadcast Saturday, Netanyahu had said "if Iranians were free, they would wear jeans and listen to Western music."Netanyahu has sought to portray Iranian President Hassan Rouhani -- a moderate elected in June -- as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" in order to maintain international pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.But his comments about jeans and music brought a storm of mockery online. By Sunday a Facebook page called "Our jeans in Netanyahu's face, Bibi watch out," had appeared, posting dozens of pictures of young Iranians wearing jeans.Although Iran maintains an Islamic dress code which requires women to cover their hair and men to wear shorts, jeans are legal. While some Western music, such as rap, is not available in licensed music stores, many young people download foreign artists' work.
By Monday, the page had attracted more than 600 followers, with hundreds of comments."He thinks he saw our bomb but he hasn't seen our jeans," one user wrote, referring to Netanyahu's repeated allegations that Iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapons, charges denied by Tehran.*"Even our ancestors wore jeans," another netizen wrote, posting a photoshopped picture of an Achaemenid soldier from 500 BC wearing jeans.*
What a foolish man Netanyahu is disclosing himself to be!
He has made himself a laughing stock yet one more time!
Photos of Iranian women with their jeans and Western music



http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201310071822-0023090
Iran And Israel Go To Battle ... Over Denim : Parallels : NPR
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