The #jeans protest is a response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's comments that Iranians are governed by a cult that bars them from wearing jeans, among other forms of expression.In a lighter side to the Israel-Iran standoff over nuclear weapons, Iranians armed with nothing more than jeans and a camera are protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus intimation that they are ruled by a cultic government that restricts not only their voting options but their sartorial choices as well.
One Iranian Twitter user, who had only bothered tweeting 152 times before today, dedicated his next 140 characters to Mr. Netanyahu:
Not only we wear jeans,but also listen to the foreign language musics! I bet he thinks that we ride horses instead of cars!#jeans #Netanyahu Mohamad Nezamabadi (@m_nezamabadii) October 6, 2013
Other tweets ranged from sassy to vindictive, but all seemed to send a clear retort: We dont need you intervening on behalf of our freedom.
The#jeansprotest came in response to a comment by Netanyahu last week in which he attempted to distinguish Iranian aspirations from the theocratic system of government that has prevailed in the Islamic Republic since 1979. The Supreme Leader is officially considered Gods deputy on earth.
If they had a free go, are you kidding, theyd toss out this regime, theyd go in blue jeans, said Netanyahu during his first-ever interview with BBC Persian. I mean these people, the Iranian people, the majority of them are actually pro-Western. But they dont have that. Theyre governed not by Rouhani. Theyre governed by Ayatollah Khamenei. He heads a cult. That cult is wild in its ambitions and its aggression.
Netanyahu has just returned from Washington and New York, where he warned the US and the world of the dangers of accepting Iran's softer rhetoric without seeing any real change in its nuclear program. Some say the Israeli prime minister sees himself astaking on a Churchillian roleof warning against appeasement, just as the formidable British leader did when faced by the Nazi regime.
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