Are you high? Jewish Iranians in the Iranian gov't?
This is the same country that doesn't have any homosexuals, according to their former president.
OK, I will presume you have not read the Bible.
There have been Jews in Persia for
thousands of years. For that long there have also been Jews in Persian gov't. "Court Jew" is not just a European concept. There have been court Jews in almost every significant country's governments from the Atlantic to the border of India at one time or another. To include Persia. And every Caliphate up to and including the Ottoman Turkish Empire/Caliphate. Jews were heavily represented in Kemal Ataturk's Young Turk supporters. In addition to court, Jews were represented in the trades we think of as traditional for them in Muslim lands: mercantile, shipping, money lending.
As far as post-Shah Iran, a bunch left immediately after the Ayatollas took over. But, despite the Ayatollas' antipathy to Israel, the official Iranian policy toward Iran's Jews is tolerance: Pretty much "Our Jews are cool and not like those zionists." I think the first Ayatolla made a big deal about it. No, not tolerance like we have in the USA, but relative to most places and most times, the Ayatollas do right by Iran's Jews. And the Jews generally do their duty as citizens to include military service. So, DS's comment may be flip, but it does have
some basis in fact.
If you want to see Jews and Christians
truly eradicated from Muslim countries, just have America invade them. Every time we have invaded and overthrown a locally-sourced dictator, the knives come out for the local Christians and Jews.
And equating Jews to homosexuals? I would hope for some clarification.
I wonder how the Jewish veterans of Iran see it - somehow I dohbt they have an "inshallah" attitude to making war.
I'm surprised how little press they get - you'd think someone would interview the Iranian Jewish government officials on these things at least out of interest.
Realistically, not enough Jews in Iran's military to make a difference.
Yes, the ethnic Persians are not as utterly unsuited to Western military organization and warfare as are ethnic Arabs, but they still are infected with a lot of inshallah. Islam has not been kind to Persian warmaking capacity over time. The more orthodox they became, the less effective their military apparatus.
