Head of Iranian Jewish Society Siamak Mareh Sedq and Member of Parliament from the Jewish community Morris Motamed in a joint statement on Wednesday rebuffed alleged organized departure of Iranian jews.Neo-Khomeinist bloggers are chiming in as well. According to DisarmamentActivist.org:
The statement reads that Iranian jews enjoy a very comfortable life compatible with their cultural affinity with Iranians and never attempted to leave the country.
They dismissed news reports about departure of Iranian Jews organized by the Israeli regime totally fabricated and baseless.
Iranian jews inspired by rich Iranian culture and civilization were shocked by such propaganda, the statement said.
"We are devoted Iranians and will remain Iranian forever," pointed out the statement.
Iranian jews have always stood shoulder to shoulder with Iranians to fight the country's enemies and ill-wishers, it said.
"Iranian jews who believe in Islamic Revolution are determined to continue to lead their life in the country."
The statement denounced foreign intervention in Iran's domestic issues and said that it is part of plot hatched by the global arrogance targeting the nation's unity and solidarity.
"As far as Iranian jews are concerned, any intervention of aliens in the affairs of Iranian jews are totally unacceptable and unjustifiable and we strongly condemn it," it said.
Another story getting considerable coverage in the biblically-minded US is the puported secret mass ‘exodus’ of Jews from Iran. Except there is no such mass movement of the largest Jewish community outside Israel in the Middle East. Reuters UK (.27.12.07) reports that the prominent Jewish group in Iran sought to distance itself on Wednesday from a secretive exodus to Israel by a group of 40 Jews. A joint statement by the Jewish association in Tehran and the community’s member of parliament, carried by the official IRNA news agency, rejected any suggestion that they were involved in or supported the group’s departure from Iran.According to Iran Affairs:
So after the exposure of NeoCon lies about how Iranian Jews were supposedly forced to wear yellow badges, lately we're witnessing a propaganda operation about how 40 Iranian Jews have arrived in Israel. Most of the papers are picking up an AP report on the topic. Though the body of the article from the AP (and other news stories) make it clear that Iranian Jews are protected by the constitution and are free to practice their religion openly in Iran, naturally some of the editors at various news organizations have decided to get more dramatic with the story and portray it as "Jews Escape to Freedom" etc. - basically a re-telling of the old "Exodus" myth which portrays Jews as constantly oppressed and Israel as their only possible refuge (one of the "Founding Myths" of Israel.)Jews are free in the Big Satan as well--that's true. Kind of hard to picture free non-Muslims describing themselves as believers in "Islamic Revolution" though.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad
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