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If you continue to be skeptical that Iran is not a threat in the nuclear sense, maybe these actions will shift your thinking about a different form of Iranian threat.

Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.

“This is reminiscent of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.”

I can’t imagine a more blatantly inane policy move in the eyes of the world than permitting conduct like this.

Read the whole article here. via Drudge

UPDATE: Our readers have been quick to point out that this story has not yet been verified. The prolific GGM states:

Rabbi Hier of the Wiesenthal Ctr. did send a letter to Kofi about this, but the letter asks that an investigation be launched “to seek clarification from the Iranians themselves on whether or not the new “National Uniform Law” would single out non-Moslems.” It is entirely possible there is a proposal put forth, but before BJH touts it as a fait accompli, it would be nice to get the Rabbi’s clarification.

Read about the possible erroneous report here.

Fair enough - I’ll wait and see and humbly recant judgment until then.