Iranian VP brags that Iran is holding its 10,000 Jews hostage

MEMRI quotes an Iranian opposition group's Telegram channel as saying that Iranian Vice President Mohsen Rezaee, deputy for economic affairs, has threatened to use Iran's Jews as hostages in case Israel does anything Iran doesn't like.

The Telegram page said:

In an unprecedented speech, Mohsen Rezaee, [President] Ebrahim Raisi's deputy for economic affairs, took Iran's Jews hostage, warning that they would be punished by the [Iranian] regime if Israel makes a mistake!

Rezaee told members and directors of [the ideological organization] Tharollah Tehran: 'The Israeli government knows very well that if it makes a mistake, the regime will treat the 10,000 Jews living in Iran differently.'

Elements in the Islamic Republic [of Iran] have in the past threatened Israeli citizens and cities such as Tel Aviv and Haifa, in order to confront the Israeli threat, but this is the first time that a senior [Iranian] regime official is threatening the Jews, who have been living in Iran for thousands of years.

It seems that Rezaee has a habit of threatening to take people hostage:

On June 10, 2021, Iranian journalist in the U.S. Masih Alinejad tweeted a video clip showing then-presidential candidate Rezaee in an Iranian television broadcast calling for solving Iran's economic problems by taking 1,000 Americans hostage and demanding billions of dollars in ransom for them.

Alinejad herself had been the target of an Iranian kidnap plot.

MEMRI notes that Rezaee is also secretary of the Expediency Council, of the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination, and of the Iranian government's Economic Committee. He is no fringe figure.

This pretty much destroys Iran's insistence that it is not antisemitic.

It sure sounds like a terror state, doesn't it?  

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