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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4428)	9/24/2001 4:13:09 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

No, there are no prominent Jewish businessmen in Iran. Can you name one? Jews are not allowed to own prominent businesses or even hold government positions. (I will give you a pass on not knowing Iran is NOT an Arab country, nor do its people speak Arabic). A recent sickening report on Iran and its Jewish comunity: The SR stated, however, that the attitude of the authorities towards the Iranian Jewish community is discriminatory and noted that no Iranian belonging to the Jewish religion can be hired in a public service sector such as teaching, medicine or banking; Jewish Iranians have to perform two years of military service, but cannot be promoted to the higher ranks in the army or have a military career. Unlike Muslim citizens, a Jewish Iranian citizen must undergo an in-depth interrogation and other tests as a sine qua non condition for obtaining a passport; Iranian citizens belonging to the Jewish religion are the only minority allowed to leave Iran only through Mahrabat International Airport; in addition to their family name, all Jewish Iranians have the name "Kalimi" stamped in their passport to identify them as Jews. Jewish Iranian citizens are strictly prohibited from visiting Israel; the telephones of a number of Jewish Iranian citizens are tapped; young Jewish citizens reaching the age of military service cannot leave Iran during the months preceding their call-up. Jewish schools in Iran are under Muslim management and have consequently lost their Jewish character, as shown, inter alia, by the requirement that Jewish children must go to school on Saturdays (Sabbath); the most flagrant demonstrations of anti-Semitism and religious discrimination take place when Jewish citizens are accused of maintaining contacts with their relatives in Israel. The report refers to some individual cases in which these discriminatory practices were a factor, including: a death sentence against a man for having maintained links with "Zionism," noting that the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment and, ultimately, the man was released; a man arrested on his way to the synagogue and accused of "contacts with Zionism" and spying for Israel, noting that he had only been keeping up a correspondence with his family, which had emigrated to Israel a few years before, and that he was executed in February 1994; one man who was hanged in his store in Tehran, noting that the killers said that the Court of Allah had ordered them to hang him; the hanging of two Iranian Jews who were accused of having tried to organise an anti-Islamic revolution and of spying on behalf of the United States and Israel; the execution of one person for having been a "Zionist agent." hri.ca