In 1948, there were estimated to be 100,000 Jews in Iran; estimates are that today, there are less than 1/4 that number.
Hmmm . . . I wonder why . . .
There's no secret there-because the economies in America and Israel are vastly better, and Iranian Jews have a much easier time emigrating to those places than other Iranians. Hence, they leave Iran (wisely) at a much higher rate than other segments of the population. If Israel and the US opened doors to every Iranian, we'd have a flood of them regardless of religion for the obvious economic sense of the decision.
Maybe because in Iran, Jews may not occupy senior positions in the government or the military, are prevented from serving in the judiciary and security services and cannot become public school heads. They're not considered to be just Iranians ". . . like everyone else in that country."
Ahmadinejad's supposed donations are about as real as John Kerry's hunting heritage.
What? Jews are guaranteed a certain number of seats in the parliament, run the best hospital in Tehran, and are honored yearly by Ahmadinejad's party for their sacrifices and contributions to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. This picture of Jews in Iran is simply false-they are oppressed in that they are Iranians (because Iran is not a free country, period), but there is no institutionalized pogram there.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0427/p01s03-wome.html?page=3Part of that coexistence has been gratitude for the Dr. Sapir Hospital, a Jewish charity hospital that would have closed years ago, but for subsidies from Jews inside and outside Iran, doctors say.
During the 1979 revolution, the hospital refused to hand over those wounded in clashes with the security forces of the pro-West Shah Reza Pahlavi. Ayatollah Khomeini later sent a personal representative to express his thanks. Ahmadinejad, too, has made a $27,000 donation.