Iran calls 2012 London Olympics logo 'racist,' threatens boycott
Iran is threatening to boycott the 2012 London Olympics, claiming that the logo for the Games is racist because it resembles the word "Zion." In comments carried by the official IRNA news agency Monday, Bahram Afsharzadeh, the secretary-general of Iran's National Olympic Committee, said he sent a letter of complaint to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, and he urged other other Muslim states to oppose the "racist logo." The logo shows the numbers "2012" in jagged figures that Assharzadeh says looks like the word ...
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