Netanyahu Dressed Down for Being "Out Dated" on Iranian Fashion Police

Here we are talking to Iran, using detente instead of bomb, bomb, bombing them to settle differences, and the Premier of Israel goes on a BBC Persian language show that is seen by Iranian citizens and bashes Iran for not allowing teens to wear blue jeans, which isn't true, among other things.

Netanyahu Dressed Down After Appeal to Iranians

By Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, October 6, 2013

TEHRAN — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel tried to take his campaign against the Iranian leadership to Iran’s young population last week, saying that if they were truly free, they would be able to wear jeans, listen to Western music and participate in free elections.

“Netanyahu, here are my #Jeans and #Western music,” wrote a user named Sallar, posting a picture of his jeans and his iPad showing a pop album cover, and adding an insult to the prime minister’s intelligence.

.@netanyahu Here are my #Jeans and #Western music you idiot. pic.twitter.com/pxv2hqv8WV

— Sallar (@sallar) October 6, 2013

and

Hi @netanyahu welcome to my room
شلختههمخودتی#IranJeanspic.twitter.com/wMTohg461e

—میلیک (@miiilik) October 6, 2013

and

Even the Iranian mannequins I met in 2010 know Netanyahu is an ignorant propagandist. #jeanspic.twitter.com/wgmFAyHQ7S

— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) October 6, 2013

and

Mr. @netanyahu, here is a shop selling weapons of mass destruction in #Iran. #jeans (Photo:Mehr) :) pic.twitter.com/Dhs79Vg7o5

— iiriix (@iiriix) October 6, 2013

Mr. Netanyahu also brought up Neda Agha-Soltan on the BBC show, a young woman who was shot to death on camera during protests in Tehran by an unknown gunman.  

“I saw her choke in her own blood,” Mr. Netanyahu said in the interview, which was dubbed into Persian.

No one disputed the horror of Ms. Agha-Soltan’s death. But many did note she had been wearing jeans.

“Netanyahu saw Neda die, but didn’t notice she wore jeans,” said a Twitter user with the handle Mohammadmojiran, who said he was a Web developer from Tehran.

This tweet satirizes Netanyahu's "red line" speech at the UN, September 27, 2012, during which he drew a red line drawn across an illustration of a bomb akin to those drawn in children's cartoons:

Mr. @netanyahu , you and Ahmadinejad never cease to amuse us. cheers! pic.twitter.com/s8ocFViwKs

— Sepidar Karimi (@Tooskaaa) October 7, 2013

What's up with these red lines any way?  One drawn through a Looney Tunes cartoon bomb, the other across the sand.  I think our leaders watch way too much television on Saturday mornings.

Netanyahu opined on the BBC show that Iranians “deserved better” than Rouhani, the new Iranian president who has walked back Ahmadinejad's impolitic rhetoric and extended his hand to the West.

Perhaps the same could be said about Israel.  Nethanyahu's belligerence and wrongheadedness remind me of Dubya, except he is not generally regarded as someone with whom one would enjoy drinking a beer.