EXCLUSIVE:@StateDept denounces as "abhorrent" Iran’s apparent coercion of its Jewish minority into staging unprecedented series of anti-Israel rallies in 5 cities on Oct 30. Videos+photos by 5🇮🇷news outlets show 100s of Iranian Jews@ rallies in Tehran etc bit.ly/471zvR6
.@INSSIsrael's @BeniSabti to VOA:Iranian Jews faced threats to their businesses from🇮🇷supporters during previous🇮🇱-Hamas battles,"but this time,the conflict is bigger so the pressure is greater & they took this very unusual step of protesting in synagogues"bit.ly/471zvR6
@INSSIsrael @BeniSabti .@KarmelMelamed 2 VOA:"I've never seen this scale of the Iranian regime parading the Jews and using them to make statements under duress for propaganda purposes...it wants to send a message that 'We have these Jews in🇮🇷& they are potential hostages for us' bit.ly/471zvR6
UPDATE: Iran's UN Mission in New York responded to a VOA request 4 comment with a statement that compared the Oct 30 anti-Israel rallies by Jews in🇮🇷 to an Oct 18 anti-Israel🇮🇱protest held by far-left American Jews in Congress' Cannon House Office Bldg... bit.ly/471zvR6
Statement of Iran's UN Mission began with a question: "Have the Jewish individuals who staged protests in the American Congress to support the Palestinians and denounce the apartheid regime's crimes been subject to pressure?" Read on for a response by a US Jewish organization...
.@cjvalues' Rabbi @YMenken to @VOANews on the question asked by Iran's UN Mission: "The obvious answer is no, because American Jews, like all Americans, do not have the experience of living under a repressive, totalitarian government like that of Iran." bit.ly/471zvR6
@cjvalues @ymenken @VOANews Iran's U.N. Mission in New York also told VOA: "Iranian Jews, akin to other Jews worldwide ... are indeed fed up with the egregious crimes committed by the occupying regime against innocent Palestinian women and children." Read on for @CJValues' response...
@cjvalues @ymenken @VOANews .@YMenken on Iran's🇺🇳Mission comparing Jews in🇮🇷2 Jews 'worldwide': Jews in🇮🇷have deeper experience w/ antisemitism vs🇺🇸Jews. This is how @StateDept knew Iranian Jews were coerced. What Jews worldwide are fed up with is🇮🇱being attacked by genocidal enemies bit.ly/471zvR6
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