Iranian-Jewish Member of Parliament Siamak Moreh Sedgh, who is the only Jew in Iran’s legislature, compared Israel’s airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas rocket attacks to the actions of the Nazis.
“The Zionist regime’s crimes are reminiscent of the actions taken by the German Nazis during the first and second world wars,” Sedgh said, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency. He also compared Israel’s actions to Saddam Hussein’s persecution of Shi’ite Muslims.
Iran grants a parliament seat to the Jewish religious minority. The seat was previously held by Jewish MP Maurice Motamed, who had criticized former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial, reported Haaretz.
Sedgh has not voiced similar criticism. In 2010, he told Russia Today that “Jews are safe in Iran.” This month, however, Iranian television aired an interview in which Tehran University professor Valiollah Naghipourfar claimed that Jews use sorcery against the Islamic state.
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Can you imagine what he would say if he didn’t have freedom of speech?
SADGH, AND YOU ARE LIKE THE jews WHO LED THE JEWS TO THE GAS CHAMBERS.
WE UNDERSTAND YOU HAD TO SAY THESE THINGS TO SAVE YOUR OWN LIFE.
I DONT FORGIVE YOU THOUGH,,,
many many rightous JEWS gave up their life rather then bow to the crusaders idols or lead thier own people to death.
You chose to life and give up the world of JEWS
to save your position and life, I understand you…but dont forgive you.
NOW THINK OF THE PUNISHMENT YOU WILL GET IN THE NEXT WORLD FOR COMPARING ISRAELIS DEFENSIVE ACTIONS AND THEY ARE DEFENSIVE
TO THE OFFENSE OF THE GERMANS AND TODAYS ARABS
You should worry what you did to your soul…
Nazis in WWI?
What a twisted mind. Poor guy. He is clearly an Iranian (with all that comes with it) first and a Jew (assuming he is) second.
THIS GUY IS JEWISH . NO WAY. H IS A RABID ANTI SEMITE!!!! THE ISRAELIS ARE RESPONDING IN SELF-DEFENSE AND EVEN GO THE EXTRA MILE TO WARN CIVILIANS!!!THE NAZIS LOOKED TO KILL AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
THIS GUYS THINKING IS VERY KRUM(CROOKED)
Some people will say anything when there is a gun pointed at their head.
it is unfair to post this. The Jews in Iran obviously live in fear and probably “bend over backwards” to maintain a good relationship with the Iranian people and in particular with the government there.
I’m sure these are not the real views of Mr. Sedgh, rather these comments are more likley “survival tatics”……
May hashem have mercy on his people
Ayatollah medaberes mitoch groinoi
Hey, Siamak, what kind of crimes are the Hamas regime committing with their rockets that specifically launched at civilians?
Enjoy your Iran.
They don’t mean what they say. They don’t say what they mean..
If he doesn’t have anything nice to say he should keep his mouth shut. Comments like these hurt us more than they help and often cause irreparable damage.
he is a netirah karteh person who cares
Obviously he feels compelled by the evil people there to say such a thing.
Sad.
sedgh is “tzedek” in persian ….. hes anything but that
Why do you report this nonsense and give legitimacy to this nobody?
Nazis killed 12000 yiden a day just because they were yiden. Israel operation in gaza is in self defense. Habo Lehogoch Hashkaim Lehorgo. Living between deniers in Iran causes this fat pig to talk like that.
It is clear that he is stating what he needs to for survival. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Imagine it was you stuck in Iran with your entire immediate and extended family’s well being threatened in absence of complying to this rhetoric.