Dear Michael,

I am a friend of Potkin Azarmehr you have mentioned in your post and he knows me well (Just confirm my first name with him). I am just telling you this upfront to not being labeled as a pro-Iranian-government apologist.

One thing I didn’t like about your article is your constant use of “its the fault of Jews”. You try too hard to uphold the mis-belief that Iranian regime is anti-semitic. In case you didn’t know that; Iran has the second biggest Jewish community in the middle east. If Iranian regime wanted to eliminate the Jews it would be logical to start right there. But this is not happening and the Western Media is using that one-off mis-phrase of Ahmadinejad “Wiping Isreal from Earth” to uphold a propaganda against Iran. And you have clearly fallen into that propaganda trap.

With all his unprofessional stupidity, what Ahmadinejad really said in Persian was wiping the name of Israel off the map. Iranian regime is not anti-Jewish. It is anti-zionist or in other words anti-Israeli-Regime. And there is a huge difference between that. In fact Jews are protected within Islam and Jerusalem contains the two holiest mosques in the Islamic world. No one wants to destroy there anything.

When I was a child I attended Jewish weddings in Iran, as my father’s business partners were Iranian-Jewish. I find it laughable how Iranian regime is portrayed as Nazis. Nothing of that is true.

Do the Jewish Iranians suffer in Iran? yes they do. They suffer like everybody else like Persians, Azeris, Armenians, Belooch and Kurds suffer. Everybody suffers from the regime. Perhaps the only minority that is targeted more than anybody else are the Bahais.

The Iranian regime will fall, there is no doubt. And I agree with you there is something to it that they could have staged these killings to make it work in their favour. We have seen many things like this in the past so that the regime could ensure its survival.

But please refrain from being a victim of daily Western media regarding the regime and antisemitism.

Kind Regards
Houman