Karmel Melamed, The Jewish Journal: Iran Jews gripped by fear in wake of post-election violence
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Title:Why the chose to stay
Name:This is why
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These jews are Persian, they are not SEMITES, just like Russian Jews are not semites, this is the crux of the problem in the middles east between religious/cultural ties to a land and ethnic/cultural and religious attachment to the land as in the Pals who are ethnically 100 semitic which the region reflects.

These persian Jews have not been liquidates like the European Jews because they are accepted and at this point are just as persians as the brethren there.