A profile of Iranian Jews, in a straightforward article in Britain’s Independent.
Now, Iranian Jews are worried and angered by their President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust. Haroun Yashayaie, head of Tehran’s Jewish Committee, wrote to him in February, saying his comments caused “fear” in his community.
“It worried us, it was disrespectful,” said a woman who did not want to be named. “Everyone knows six million Jews were killed and burnt but the President denies this. How does he know if something happened or not?”
The fact that she did not want to be named shows the tightrope on which minorities walk in Iran.
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