Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel, why do they love being in IRAN so much ?

Question

Iran's Jewish population love Iran SO MUCH they dont want to goto ISRAEL.

If Islam is so nasty and cruel then why do Iranian Jews NOT want to leave Iran and live in Israel ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2125155,00.html


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Answer 1

Its simple- Jews in Iran who want to leave to go to Israel are accussed of treason and thrown in jail. More than one Jew has dissapeared into an Iranian prison after applying to leave the country, to never be seen again. On top of that, the Iranian government never allows a whole family to leave, but only allows one member to leave, meaning they have to accept never seeing their families again, how many parents/spouses/children never want to see their loved ones again?

So of course Iranian Jews behave like good citizens and make their loyalty pledges, if they don't, they get called traitors and thrown into prison!

From the article you linked to:
"Hostility between Iran's Islamic government and Israel means Iranian Jews are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny. In 2000 10 Jews in the southern city of Shiraz were jailed for spying for Israel, which Iran refuses to recognise.

A Jewish businessman, Ruhollah Kadkhodah-Zadeh, was hanged in 1998, apparently for allegedly helping Jews to emigrate."

and "Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath." Freedom to practice their religion? But they are compelled to break Jewish laws at the behest of the Iranian government? The Guardian normally leaves their apologetics for slandering Israel, seems they turned it to justifying oppression of Jews this time!

Answer 2

Most Iranian Jews have already left for Israel or the United States.

What remains are largely the wealthy upper middle class that would not be swayed by such a sum of money.


"Today, the largest groups of Persian Jews are found in Israel (75,000 in 1993, including second-generation Israelis)[1] and the United States (45,000 (first-generation only); especially in the Los Angeles area and Great Neck, New York). By various estimates, between 30,000 and 40,000 (most sources say 35,000) Jews remain in Iran"


"At the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, there were approximately 140,000–150,000 Jews living in Iran, the historical center of Persian Jewry. Over 85% have since migrated to either Israel or the United States. At the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, 80,000 still remained in Iran. From then on, Jewish emigration from Iran dramatically increased, as about 20,000 Jews left within several months after the Islamic Revolution"

Seems like Islam has been "great" to the Jews of Iran...

Answer 3

For the same reason America's Iranians refuse to return to Iran?

Answer 4

You asked this question already. It's their home. And the "offer" is an immature political bribe to stir up trouble. I want to move to Israel, and I wouldn't have taken the bribe either.

Answer 5

There are lot of other people who do not sell themselves for money.
lot of Christians sold themselves for money in this country and other countries left their wife and kids and everything and went to Iraq in the Green Zone too and I am sure there are lot of other Christians who will wait to hear from GOD.....

Answer 6

Maybe they do not want to leave because it is there home and has been for a very long time.

Would you want to leave where you live. ?

Answer 7

think about it...would you just want to leave just like that..leave your house, your friends, your school, or your job. just leave everything, sure everything is pretty screwed up but thats why you need your friends...for when things get screwed up. so that would be the worst time to leave them

Answer 8

Are you going to keep asking this question until you get enough anti-Semites to link to you? Blocked and flagged.

Answer 9

Its their home.