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| Debka: Warning letters delivered to thousands of Jewish families in Iran advise them to leave |
| 2007-10-20 |
| Debka so salt The letters, according to Iranian sources, have been posted to Jewish families in Tehran (where the community numbers some 13,000), Isfahan (under 2,000) and Shiraz (some 4,000). They are captioned: Danger! Danger! Danger! and tell recipients to try and reach the West with all possible speed. Iranian Jews like the rest of the population face grave danger from impending events, the anonymous writers warn. The Israeli prime minister Ehud OlmertÂ’s sudden trip to Moscow Thursday, Oct. 18, for one day there and back, and the two hours President Vladimir Putin has allotted for their conversation, tie in with these events. The letters posted to Iranian Jews, our sources report, are not signed; they were postmarked from different towns in America and Europe and from private addresses so as not to raise the suspicions of Iranian security services. All the same, some were discovered and confiscated, prompting Tehran to accuse Israel and world Zionist organizations of a campaign to scare its Jewish citizens. In recent months, Iranian officials angrily held up a new Israeli offer of a one-time grant of $10,000 for every Iranian Jew migrating to Israel, over and above the regular grants for other immigrants. Learning of these incentives, the Iranian authorities not long ago ordered the Jewish deputy in the Majlis, Mauris MoÂ’tamed, to declare that the Jews of Iran cannot be bought for money and would never forsake their country. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #1 It amazes me there are any Jews left in Iran. Alive, that is.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-20 18:54 |