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(Wiki: Former president Khatami visits a Tehran Jewish center.)
The roughly 25,000 Jewish people living in Iran constitute the second highest population in the Middle East (after Israel, of course).
Two mini-documentaries can be found here and here. Another report for CBC by my friend Bahman Kalbasi, who now works for the BBC Farsi service, is here.
Bahman kalbasi biography of rory
(I should add that Bahman has been a wonderful resource for this blog during the revolution, and has also helped me understand the resistance long before the election uprising. My thanks to him). One of them states:
The fiercely Islamic Republic of Iran, is perhaps the last place you would expect to find a large Jewish community.
But despite political use of anti-semitic, anti-Israeli slogans, Iran's Jews appear remarkably free. "Anti-semitism has never been the general policy of the Iranian government" explains Maurice Mottamed, the country's sole Jewish MP.
There are of course "glaring differences" in treatment between the