I suppose you stil believe that Iranin Jews are forced to wear wloth badges indetifying them also?

Languish in Iranian prisons? How many exactly? 15 Jews charged with espionage? How long ago? How many hundreds of Palestinians and Lebanese Arabs have dissappeared into Israeli prisons to be tortured and never heard from?

And how do you know that the movement of many Jews are tracked by secret police? The same source that reported about the cloth badges? Iranian Jews themselves have laughed at the preposterous allegations made about their treatment Iran. Yes, the Jews in Iran do have to maintain a low profile, which is regrettable, but they are represented in Iran’s government and obviously enjoys standing in Iran;s society that puts Israel’s apartheid state to shame.

Their travel abroad is restricted? Really? Why then, did 90% of them manage to leave Iran after the 1979 revolution?

I doubt that most of what you and Antony comment on in this blog come from first hand knowledge either.

With all due respects, you need to get a grip. Ant spent a couple of weeks in Iran talking to such people. Keith, who has frequently demonstrated attempt to refute Ant’s first hand experiences is beyond pathetic, as it amounts to a petulant rebuttal based on an unsubstantiated alternative possibility.

The fact that Iran has the second largest Jewish population in the ME outside Israel has been a cause for major embarrassment to Israel, and so long as this remains the case, the argument that Iran’s leadership is hell bent on killing Jews falls flat on it’s face. This latest stunt is an effort to overcome that paradox.

The bottom line is that if life for these people even remotely reflected your delusional account of events. they would be leaving, especially with tens of thousands being help in front of their to noses.

The movement of many Jews (and many others in Iran) are tracked on a daily basis by the secret police. Their right to travel abroad is restricted. Do you really expect them to come out with a statement supporting this initiative (and live)?

Further, you ask Keith if he knows what he writes from experience. I doubt that most of what you and Antony comment on in this blog come from first hand knowledge either.

Still stuck on stupid I see.