Mannequin in a Tehran Benetton store complete with mandatory headscarf
Iran MPs want to shut down Benetton stores
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| Iranian 'students' set Benneton store on fire | |
| 2008-12-31 | |
According to the conservative Iranian daily, Jomhuri Eslami, the shop in Dowlat Street, in the north of the capital Tehran, had been attacked by protesters on Tuesday. Benetton is said to be "linked with the Zionist network," a government newspaper said. Several Benetton stores have opened in the past two years in Iran, where global brands have largely been absent since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Last year a group of prominent MPs protested against Benetton's presence in Iran, alleging that it was owned by a "Zionist millionaire" and that its fashions were a bad influence on female consumers | |
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| #6 Thus proving the old adage that there is some good in everybody... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-12-31 18:06 |
| #5 Mannequin in a Tehran Benetton store complete with mandatory headscarf Iran MPs want to shut down Benetton stores |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-12-31 17:35 |
| #4 What I don't get is this: Benetton is a clothing store, right? They sell Western clothing, right? The kind Iranian women aren't allowed to wear, right? How do they stay in business in Iran? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-12-31 17:27 |
| #3 Apparently the Benetton family once planned to open a plant in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank. Link |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-12-31 16:58 |
| #2 Gotta get their credits in for the quarterly commission statement, I guess. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-12-31 16:38 |
| #1 busy little beavers, aren't they? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-31 16:01 |