(AP) Ali Akbar Dareini - Iran objects to the logo for the 2012 London Olympics, contending the numbers "2012" in four jagged figures resemble the word "Zion." The official IRNA news agency Monday reported that the secretary general of Iran's National Olympic Committee, Bahram Afsharzadeh, sent a complaint to the International Olympic Committee and urged other Muslim states to oppose the "racist logo." The IOC responded: "The London 2012 logo represents the figure 2012, nothing else." The design was launched in 2007.
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