This one slipped under the radar. From the Islamic Republic News Agency, April 1;
The Association of Iranian Jews here on Sunday renewed its commitment to defend the national interests of Iranians with the advent of the Iranian new year (1386), which the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution declared to be year of "national unity and Islamic solidarity."The association renewed its commitment in a message issued on the threshold of the Jewish religious festival of the Passover, which starts Monday night.
"In obedience to the instructions of Jesus, in the new Iranian year, which has been declared year of national unity and Islamic solidarity, Iranian Jews voice their readiness to defend all national interests of Iranians and to observe the guidelines set by Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei) for the sake of strengthening national unity and solidarity in the fight against present-day pharaohs," the message said.
Via Michael Rubin who remarked at the time;
"Either revolutionary apparatchiks who know nothing of Judaism or Christianity are penning pro-Islamic Republic solidarity messages in other peoples' names—in which case ignorance is astounding as no one caught the mistake—or Iranian Jews living in the Islamic Republic (there are still around 20,000) are signaling that something is very wrong."
The same "Iranian Jews" have now "voiced hatred for the recent measures taken by the Zionist regime of Israel "
I know they are easy targets, but this is old news.
This is interesting:
Ahmadinejad: Israel's repeated mistakes to spark nations' wrath
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"Advising the Zionists to stop 60 years of massacre, assassination, crime and aggression, he (Ahmadinejad ) said, "If you do not stop massacring, regional nations will soon come on the scene and eliminate you criminals."
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0705243124200457.htm
In other news, Iranian Jews hope Santa will be good to them this year as they dance around their Chanukah trees.
Iranian Jews???? That's like saying Jean Cretin and the liberals aren't corrupt!!!
Note the pointed reference to Sunday. And the date. Which fell on a Sunday.
Someone had a terrific sense of humour, and was betting the Iranian leadership had never heard of April Fool's Day.
TEHRAN (Far News Agency) -- "Iran's Jewish community voiced hatred for the recent measures taken by the Zionist regime of Israel..."
"...The Iranian Jews further expressed sympathy for the deprived and oppressed Palestinian Nation, and stated their deep hatred for Israel's recent violent measures..."
It reminds me of a joke my dad once told me about a black man named Brother Brown whose white neighbours had been trying for years to convert him to their particularly jiggly and unsightly and red-faced and mean spirited faith.
His frustrated neighbours eventually realized that although they felt that they were in the ascendant, their faith could somehow find no purchase on the rocky face of his obstinacy, and so they decided that a forced conversion was in order.
They strapped him to a large plank and and commenced to repeatedly dunking him in the pond, asking him, each time he was brought up for air, whether he believed.
Each time he replied "NO".
Eventually his putative helpmates began to feel a rumbling panic re the loss of their own faith, and they dunked him again; but this time, instead of hovering measuredly near the plank, they went to eat lunch while Brother Brown was submerged.
They returned twenty-five minutes later fully expecting to find a converted dead man, but when they yanked him out of the water Brother Brown was still fully alive, albeit inconvenienced.
He spluttered, he spit out water, he gasped for breath, he shook a half-pint of water out of his right ear, and a half-quart out of his left.
"Do you BELIEVE, brother brown?" the high-trousers shouted in jumpy excited disunion.
Gasping for breath, brother brown choked out a few words:
"I do belive...I believe......"
"WHAT do you believe, Brother Brown?"
"I believe you bastards is tryin' to drown me!..."
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Iranian Jew isn't a good gig, either, but at least they have an official news agency to clarify what they're thinking.
It may be my mistake, but there was something back in the soviet era when 'soviet Jews' condemned Israel. I would not blame them, however - it's hard to be a hero looking down the threaded barrel.