The drumbeat gets a little louder

You might have heard that the Iranians, being crazy, are going to make religious minorities wear strips of cloth on their clothes identifying them as non-Muslims. According to the stories, Christians would wear red, Zoroastrians blue, and Jews were to wear yellow badges, a colour with resonances I'm sure I don't have to explain to an audience as intelligent and attractive as yourselves.

Don't believe the hype.

The thing about false stories like this is that once they're out there they colour all future conversations about the country they're made about. As Jim Henley puts it, when-not if-the campaign to bomb Iran NOW NOW NOW gets fully underway, a number of people are going to half remember this fake story and say "Good riddance." That may be so for other, non-fake reasons, but bombing Iran remains an absolutely lunatic idea, and saying so and being heard just got a little louder.