Article of interest from the Israeli daily Haaretz.
Ed Corrigan
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Ed Corrigan
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Siamak Marreh Sedq, who fills reserved seat for Jews in Iranian
parliament, toes regime's line on Israel and anti-Semitism.
By Haaretz
The lone Jewish member of Iran's parliament on Monday
likened Israel's bombing of Gaza to the actions of
Nazi Germany, the Iranian news agency Fars reported.
“The Zionist regime's crimes are reminiscent of the
actions taken by the German Nazis during the first
[sic] and second World Wars,” Siamak Marreh Sedq
told Fars. He also compared Israel's Operation
Protective Edge to Saddam Hussein's predations
upon the Shi'ites of Iran and Iraq, a red flag in the
Islamic republic.
Sedq, a 50-year-old physician, fills the
parliamentary seat reserved for Jews, as a
religious minority, going back over a century.
He replaced long-time Jewish MP
Maurice Motamed in 2008, and seems even
more loyal to the Iranian line on Israel
and anti-Semitism than his predecessor.
Motamed publicly criticized former President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial,
while Sedq is not known for having ever
broken ranks with the regime.
In a 2010 interview with Russia Today, he
painted life for Iranian Jews in especially
rosy colors: “Jews are safe in Iran. That’s true.
Nobody needs guards. There has never
been a single instance of anti-Semitism in
Iranian society. This phenomenon belongs
to the European, Christian world. There is no
anti-Semitic sentiment in Iran. We have
no attacks on synagogues or cemeteries as
happens in Paris."
likened Israel's bombing of Gaza to the actions of
Nazi Germany, the Iranian news agency Fars reported.
“The Zionist regime's crimes are reminiscent of the
actions taken by the German Nazis during the first
[sic] and second World Wars,” Siamak Marreh Sedq
told Fars. He also compared Israel's Operation
Protective Edge to Saddam Hussein's predations
upon the Shi'ites of Iran and Iraq, a red flag in the
Islamic republic.
Sedq, a 50-year-old physician, fills the
parliamentary seat reserved for Jews, as a
religious minority, going back over a century.
He replaced long-time Jewish MP
Maurice Motamed in 2008, and seems even
more loyal to the Iranian line on Israel
and anti-Semitism than his predecessor.
Motamed publicly criticized former President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial,
while Sedq is not known for having ever
broken ranks with the regime.
In a 2010 interview with Russia Today, he
painted life for Iranian Jews in especially
rosy colors: “Jews are safe in Iran. That’s true.
Nobody needs guards. There has never
been a single instance of anti-Semitism in
Iranian society. This phenomenon belongs
to the European, Christian world. There is no
anti-Semitic sentiment in Iran. We have
no attacks on synagogues or cemeteries as
happens in Paris."
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