Iran extorting from its Jews to bankroll the war

Al Hurra (Arabic) has an article on how minorities are being mistreated in Iran since the fighting started. It describes how a church has been confiscated and Bahai's accused of espionage.

For Jews, however, Iran seems to have resurrected a medieval method: arrest Jews and extort them for cash.

According to activists and Iranian citizens who spoke to Al-Hurra from inside Iran, many Jews in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz were recently arrested by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Some were released from custody - in exchange for large sums of money. For some, their families were forced to give up their property in order to release their fathers or sons from jail.

This is happening at the same time that Jewish community leaders are making public statements against Israel and the US, including Rabbi Dr. Hakham Hamami Lalehzar saying in Parliament that “The murderers of Supreme Leader Khamenei must be killed.”

It is even more clear now that when Jewish Iranian leaders say statements like this, they are coerced. And now we know how the coercion works: threats of arrests or worse. 

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