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Iranians
have used social media to mock Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
after he suggested they were not allowed to wear jeans.
In an
interview with BBC Persian TV Mr Netanyahu said that if Iranians were free they
would wear blue jeans, and listen to Western music.
Hundreds of
Iranians both in Iran and abroad reacted on social media sites.
Many posts
showed mainly young Iranians wearing jeans and listening to Western music, some
in comic poses.
Others
mocked up scenes from ancient Persian history with the protagonists wearing
denim.
Jeans are
not banned in Iran, where an Islamic dress code requires women to cover their
hair and wear modest outer clothing. Some Western music or Western-style music
is tolerated.
Jeans not
bombs
One picture
on social media sites showed a young boy in jeans whispering into the ear of
the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Another is
a doctored photograph of Mr Netanyahu's address at the UN last year in which he
drew a red line across a sketch of a bomb, to warn that Iran was moving closer
to the metaphorical "red line" of gaining enough highly-enriched
uranium for a nuclear bomb.
In the
mocked-up picture, widely-shared on Twitter, the bomb has been replaced with a
picture of a female figure wearing jeans, with the Israeli prime minister
appearing to draw a red line across the thighs.
In the BBC
Persian interview, broadcast on Friday, Mr Netanyahu said that Iranians
"deserve better" than their current government:
"I
think if the Iranian people had their way, they'd be wearing blue jeans, they'd
have Western music, they'd have free elections."
The
Israel's prime minister also said that the lives of Iranians could get worse if
it gained nuclear weapons.
One Iranian
response on a Facebook page that has attracted hundreds of followers read:
"He thinks he saw our bomb but he hasn't seen our jeans."
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