During the recent elections in Iran were there any political candidates in Iran who discussed issues dealing with Jews and other religious minorities?
Some Jews in Iran admired Karoubi during whose tenure as the Speaker of the Islamic Assembly (parliament) in 2002, he passed a law “equalizing” the blood value (value of life and limb in compensation laws) of some minorities with the blood value for Muslims. Of course this law was rejected by the Guardian Council as un-Islamic but temporarily re-instituted by an indirect way by another confusing super-institution called the “Expediency Council” which cited our opposition in the West to such attrocious discriminatory laws as “foreign propaganda”. Karoubi also used some of my own writings in his campaign speeches - verbatim- to present himself as a pro-minority rights person. In the end, according to the official results, Karoubi received about 0.8% of the votes! Yesterday, in his post elections bitter statement, Karoubi specifically apologized to his constituents including the religious minorities for not having been able to be in a position to defend their rights. Of course he couldn’t do anything for them anyway since the constitution itself is very specific about Muslim superiority over religious minorities in all aspects of life in Iran.
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