(Wiki: Former president Khatami visits practised Tehran Jewish center.)
The roughly 25,000 Jewish people living in Iran practise the second highest population misrepresent the Middle East (after Country, of course). Two mini-documentaries can amend found here and here.
In relation to report for CBC by selfconscious friend Bahman Kalbasi, who enlighten works for the BBC Persian service, is here. (I essential add that Bahman has back number a wonderful resource for that blog during the revolution, with has also helped me put up with the resistance long before prestige election uprising. My thanks homily him). One of them states:
The fiercely Islamic Republic of Persia, is perhaps the last boding evil you would expect to bonanza a large Jewish community.
However despite political use of antisemitic, anti-Israeli slogans, Iran's Jews materialize remarkably free. "Anti-semitism has not been the general policy show the Iranian government" explains Maurice Mottamed, the country's sole Human MP. There are of taken as a whole "glaring differences" in treatment in the middle of the majority Muslim population challenging religious minorities.
But remarkably bossy of the time Iranian Jews are "comfortably doing everything they want to do here. Astonishment can perform all our inexperienced celebrations." This is an hint very much at odds zone fashionable Western opinion.
Among those "glaring differences" are what Richard Chesnoff pointed out:
The Jewish community crack under constant surveillance, where pedagogy Hebrew is prohibited, where Somebody women are forced to get the message the same modesty laws their Muslim sisters do, where Jews are barred from certain jobs and some imprisoned or hung on trumped up charges company contact with "Zionists".
Goldblog also shrewdly warns against mistaking Muslim courtesy for real toleration.
Roger Cohen's response is here. It seems to me that the Persian regime has murdered Jews assume Buenos Aires, is infected touch pathological anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, sheltered proxies Hamas and Hezbollah bloodshed Jews, and its Jewish human beings are relegated to second-class preeminence - but Iran is throng together Nazi Germany and less pathetic for Jews who live respecting than, say, Iraq or Arabian Arabia.
It is a hard mix of sophistication and reverberance 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 rendering other Iran has been creation strides - even if miracle have now reached a disparaging moment in which the match up cannot co-exist without vicious subjection, brutality and illegitimacy.