The imminent execution of a young Jewish man the Iranian regime has sentenced to death has been postponed, Iranian Jewish activists in the United States told JNS.
“Iranian authorities often subject Jewish citizens to different standards when it comes to determining judgments in cases of this nature,” wrote Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and
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Israel has made its first public comment on Iran's apparent coercion of its Jewish minority into staging unprecedented anti-Israel rallies a month ago, telling VOA that it believes the Iranian Jews who participated in them had "no choice." "We understand perfectly circumstances," said Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy Emmanuel Nahshon in a Nov. 14 VOA Persian TV interview in Jerusalem. "We understand that when you live in a dictatorship, sometimes you have no choice. This is part of what they have been living through since 1979. So we understand the difficulties that they are facing," Nahshon said. Radical Shiite clerics opposed to Israel's existence have ruled Iran since seizing power in its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian Jews held rallies in five cities on Oct. 30 to denounce Israel for waging war against Hamas, which triggered the conflict with its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Hundreds of Jews particip