Iran’s Attempts to Hide Its Anti-Semitic Past—and Present
Javad Zarif boasts of tolerance. An Iranian Jew begs to differ.
April 27, 2015
Iran’s Attempts to Hide Its Anti-Semitic Past—and Present
Javad Zarif boasts of tolerance. An Iranian Jew begs to differ.
In an interview with NBC last month, Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif boasted that Iran has “a history of tolerance and cooperation and living together in coexistence with our own Jewish people, and with Jews everywhere in the world.” Shahrzad Elghanayan, whose grandfather, a prominent Iranian-Jewish businessman, was executed by the nascent Islamic Republic in 1979, begs to differ:
April 27, 2015
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