Iranians, irked by Netanyahu comment, tweet photos of their jeans | The Back Channel
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his first interview with the BBC’s Persian language service broadcast into Iran Saturday, appeared to offend many young, educated Iranians he presumably meant to appeal to with comments they said revealed he is deeply out of touch with Iranian society.
While Netanyahu in the interview repeated familiar talking points–dismissing the power of Iran’s elected president Hassan Rouhani in the Islamic Republic system and arguing Iran should not be allowed to have a nuclear enrichment capability–it was his assertion that Iranians are not free to wear jeans and listen to western music that set off a social media firestorm.
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Best #jeans photo so far: with #Iran SL. Via @rooznameh pic.twitter.com/ZRQNaaD7Of
▻https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/386939783479443456
#Iran facebook users mock #Nentanyahu for his new comments on #jeans & his bomb sketch at #UNGA last year
