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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   For decades, Israeli government officials — chief among them, Prime   
   Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have accused Iran of plotting a new   
   Holocaust against the millions of Jews who call the Zionist state   
   home. Netanyahu has said Iran is “planning another genocide against   
   our people,” and wants to “destroy another six million plus Jews.”   
      
   Western journalists are quick to quote these claims, yet slow to   
   publicize contradictory evidence — such as the fact that Iran is home   
   to the Middle East’s second-largest population of Jews, who freely   
   practice their faith, peacefully coexist within the Islamic republic   
   and even have a seat in the legislature.   
      
   It’s said that “charity begins at home.” If we’re to believe Netanyahu   
   and his confederates in America, wouldn’t an Iranian genocide against   
   Jews begin there too?   
      
   Having long been subjected to the genocidal-Iran narrative, the   
   average American probably assumes there’s no such thing as an Iranian   
   Jew. However, according to varying estimates, there are 9,000 to   
   20,000 of them in a land where the Jewish presence goes back nearly   
   3,000 years.   
      
   That’s well lower than the 100,000 or more Jews who lived in Iran in   
   the years leading up to the 1979 revolution. The uncertainty of what   
   life would be like in an Islamic republic — culturally, economically   
   and in terms of personal safety — prompted tens of thousands to leave   
   for Israel, the United States and other countries.   
      
   Many of them were alarmed when Habib Elghanian, a prominent Iranian   
   Jewish industrialist with ties to the deposed Shah, was arrested just   
   a few weeks after the revolution and charged with corruption and   
   spying for Israel. Prosecutors also accused him of soliciting money   
   for the Israeli Defense Forces, and thus being complicit “in murderous   
   air raids against innocent Palestinians.” In May 1979, he was executed   
   by firing squad.   
      
   Though Elghanian’s execution shook Iranian Jews, it also precipitated   
   a critical development that has helped assuage their fears ever since.   
      
   The day after the execution, two rabbis and four younger intellectual   
   Jews arranged a visit with the Ayatollah Khomeini. By conveying that   
   Iran’s Jews considered themselves Iranian first and would support   
   their fellow citizen’s choice of a new system of government, they   
   hoped to elicit a guarantee against Jews being targeted.   
      
   To their surprise, Khomeini welcomed them as VIPs. After a literal   
   standoff that saw the Jewish delegation and the ayatollah both   
   deferentially waiting for the other to take a seat first, they all sat   
   on the floor in a circle.   
      
   Khomeini lauded Moses as one of three prophets sent by God to guide   
   humanity. Then, to the great relief of his guests, he drew a sharp   
   distinction between the Israeli government and Iran’s Jews, declaring:   
      
   “Moses would have nothing to do with these pharaoh-like Zionists who   
   run Israel. And our Jews, the descendants of Moses, have nothing to do   
   with them either. We recognize our Jews as separate from those   
   godless, bloodsucking Zionists.”   
      
   Khomeini then issued a fatwa — an Islamic religious leader’s formal   
   decree — asserting that Jews are a protected minority and forbidding   
   violence against them.   
      
            
      
      
   https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/irans-jewish-population-belies-claims   
      
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