Iran and the Jews

I was in Iran too and I agree with the article. That writer refers to a much more recent study, though, one done by a well-known Jewish Organization.

There is a lot of concern about Iran having nuclear
power and how they could convert to nuclear weaponry.
A number of Christian leaders in the United States are
calling for preemptive military action against Iran
because for one thing, they would destroy Israel, even
if it meant knowingly destroying themselves This
charge most notably came again two weeks ago by Pastor
John Hagee of the Cornerstone megachurch in San
Antonio who is urging the US to go to war with Iran
immediately, and was praised by Senator Joseph
Lieberman, and former congressman Tom Delay, among
others, for this stand.

There is so much speculation about how Muslims hate
Jews, and particularly what Iran is likely to do if
their insane fanaticism isn't stopped cold in its
tracks. For some insightful details of what they
might do, we could, of course, look at what they are
already doing to Jews inside their own country as
indicated in a report entitled "The Life of Jews
Living in Iran." This report was just released by none
other than... the Jewish Foundation for the
Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture.

The report states among other things, that
anti-Semitism is far worse in western countries than
in Iran, where 35,000 Jews live peacefully without
harassment. Iran in fact has the largest Jewish
population in the Muslim world. Jewish citizens are
free to stay, leave or return to Iran as they choose.
There are Jewish synagogues with complete freedom of
worship in every major city in Iran. There are 11
synagogues in Teheran. There are kosher restaurants,
Jewish hospitals, Jewish cemeteries and mausoleums,
Hebrew schools, Jewish libraries, Jewish old age
homes, Jewish social clubs, and a Jewish member of the
Iranian national parliament. Under Iranian law,
fashioned after a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah
Khomeini in 1979 following the Iranian revolution
(which only incidentally overthrew the US installed
torture-puppet Shah), protection of the Jewish
population is mandated.

There is however one law that Iran passed a long time
ago which still exists and it is unfairly applied only
to its Jewish population. In a country where all
alcohol is forbidden, the Jews are the one group
permitted to buy, sell, posses and drink wine.

Perhaps with enough pressure from the outside world we
can force this oppressive regime to immediately repeal
this terribly unjust, racially biased law which
affects only its Jewish minority, and thus avoid World
War Three.