Summons and threats to Iranian Jews after the Iran-Israel war
After the war between Iran and Israel, summons and pressure from security agencies against the Jewish community have increased.
Published reports indicate that two prominent rabbis and some religious leaders were summoned and threatened, and that warning and threatening messages were sent to them by the Jewish community's Jewish community association.
According to an informed researcher who conducts research on Iranian Jews, in recent days, a number of Hazans (Jewish religious clergy) and two prominent Jewish rabbis in Tehran and Shiraz have been summoned to security agencies and, after being warned, threatened.
According to this researcher, the security institutions of the Islamic Republic have forced the Iranian Jewish Association to send threatening text messages to members of Iranian Jews, which begin with the phrase "Dear fellow Jews," warning them that any contact between Jews and outside the country is prohibited and that they will be responsible for commenting and republishing content related to the recent 12-day war.
Also, in another message sent to the Jewish community, they were asked to participate in a support conference titled "Support for His Holiness Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Revolution and the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran" on Thursday, July 25.
The conference was held yesterday at the "Ibrishmi" synagogue in Tehran, and a number of Jews serving in the Islamic Republic's army also attended, wearing military uniforms and kippahs.
"Homayun Sameh", a Jewish representative in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, also attended the conference and announced that as a result of Israeli attacks on Iran, some homes of Iranian Jews had also been destroyed, and his statements drew widespread reactions from the Iranian Jewish community abroad. Iranian Jews abroad considered this issue baseless and said that his statements were the result of pressure, arrests, and threats from security institutions.
"Harav Gerami," the Chief Rabbi of Iranian Jews, also attended the conference and stated in a speech: "The Iranian Jewish community not only supports its nation and sovereignty, but also stands with the Iranian nation in a united front in support of the Iranian soil."
The summoning of Jewish leaders by security agencies and even Christian citizens is taking place while the Jewish and Christian communities have repeatedly proven their loyalty to the Islamic Republic by supporting them and have stood by the Islamic Republic on all official occasions; however, the Islamic Republic regime, regardless of the support of these religious minorities, has only abused them to advance its own goals, including participating in elections and other official ceremonies, and has arrested and harassed them on other occasions.
Human rights experts also warned that Iran's Jewish community is caught in the middle of the political conflict between Iran and Israel and is more vulnerable to violations of their legal rights and freedoms than in the past.
