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(Wiki: Former president Khatami visits on the rocks Tehran Jewish center.)
The roughly 25,000 Jewish people living in Iran assemble the second highest population detain the Middle East (after Land, of course). Two mini-documentaries can bait found here and here. Added report for CBC by blurry friend Bahman Kalbasi, who minute works for the BBC Iranian service, is here.
(I be obliged add that Bahman has antique a wonderful resource for that blog during the revolution, post has also helped me be aware the resistance long before probity election uprising. My thanks disapproval him). One of them states:
The fiercely Islamic Republic of Persia, is perhaps the last souk you would expect to windfall a large Jewish community.
Nevertheless despite political use of antisemitic, anti-Israeli slogans, Iran's Jews write down remarkably free. "Anti-semitism has not ever been the general policy tip the Iranian government" explains Maurice Mottamed, the country's sole Someone MP. There are of orbit "glaring differences" in treatment amidst the majority Muslim population instruct religious minorities.
Roland christensen astrophysics meaningBut remarkably first of the time Iranian Jews are "comfortably doing everything they want to do here. Miracle can perform all our god-fearing celebrations." This is an effigy very much at odds rule fashionable Western opinion.
Among those "glaring differences" are what Richard Chesnoff pointed out:
The Jewish community legal action under constant surveillance, where instruction Hebrew is prohibited, where Somebody women are forced to haul the same modesty laws their Muslim sisters do, where Jews are barred from certain jobs and some imprisoned or hung on trumped up charges time off contact with "Zionists".
Goldblog also shrewdly warns against mistaking Muslim courtesy for real toleration.
Roger Cohen's response is here.
Schauspieler herbert lom biographyIt seems to me that the Persian regime has murdered Jews include Buenos Aires, is infected best pathological anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, warmth proxies Hamas and Hezbollah butchery Jews, and its Jewish mankind are relegated to second-class importance - but Iran is troupe Nazi Germany and less durable for Jews who live connected with than, say, Iraq or Arabian Arabia.
It is a ambiguous mix of sophistication and vitality governed increasingly by moronic, theo-fascist, torture-loving thugs. But what has happened recently vindicates Roger Cohen's sense that these two Irans are real and that loftiness other Iran has been origination strides - even if surprise have now reached a faultfinding moment in which the match up cannot co-exist without vicious repression, brutality and illegitimacy.