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Prior to this thread becoming a repository for the entire inventory of youtube's video vault of Jewish citizens living in Iran and their happy-fun lives and livelihoods, please consider supplying:
When and where was the video taken? Was the video shot in Iran with "minders" present? Please provide some background regarding what is copied and pasted.
Did the video'ee and the video'or agree on distribution of the video? Is the video'ee really going to speak openly about his or her situation in Iran if they know they and / or their family members may disappear in the night?
Funny you would mention that. According to Wikipedia, Iran effectively holds hostage the family of any Iranian Jew (and only the Jews) who is traveling abroad:
"With the exception of certain business travelers, the authorities require Jews to obtain clearance and pay additional fees before each trip abroad. The Government appears concerned about the emigration of Jewish citizens and permission generally is not granted for all members of a Jewish family to travel outside the country at the same time."
Persian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Riiight..
Do you have contradictory info or just your goofy (looking) face to offer?
"Even though Ayatollah Khomeini, in his first public speech in 1979, announced the Jewish community would be regarded differently from Israel, Habibollah Elghanian, head of the Tehran Jewish community and one of the wealthiest Iranian Jews, was accused of corruption and contacts with Israel and was executed in 1979.
That led to a wave of emigration by Iranian Jews. Over the past 30 years, the Israeli flag has been repeatedly torched and the Star of David desecrated in Palestine Square in Tehran. The government has also funded the production of countless anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli films and TV series...
Iranian Jews, like Christians and Zoroastrians, have a representative in the Majlis (parliament). But only in 2003 was the blood money for Jewish people and other religious minorities made equal to that of a Muslim. Previously, blood money, the compensation that relatives of a murder victim can claim in lieu of the death sentence for the perpetrator, was half for the minorities...
Sepideh, a female Jewish student is both anxious about not being able to get married and the problems her people face in general, said, "There are almost no educated Jewish boys left in Iran to consider for marriage. Emigration is the last resort that we must consider so that maybe we can experience a future free of restrictions."
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...kb32Bg&usg=AFQjCNGBs6qvernVuFGDa0w6Y5eVrOb39w