According to Van Jones, an ignorant blowhard and ruling class ideologue on the fake news network CNN, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and the reason for that is that they say "death to all the Jews".
FACT CHECK: pants on fire.
REALITY: Iran has never said anything about "the Jews", let alone that they should all die. In fact, Iran has the largest Jewish minority in the Middle East after Israel, and it's not because the government has not been able to find them.
Iran makes a distinction between Judaism, which they regard as a religion, and Zionism, which they regard as a political ideology that they oppose. To quote Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran:
There are Jews living in various countries;in Iran Jews live respectably 'cuz its their own country but #Zionism is different from #Judaism. source
Quite a far cry from "death to all the Jews".
But I guess all's fair in manufacturing consent for senseless wars. And this guy is supposedly a "radical". And yet here he is lying for the war machine.
Huh. Weird how many goyim countries always allgedly end up wanting to genocide jews.
Its such a weird tactic. According to jewish propaganda, the jews are such awful people to the point that everyone who comes in to contact with them , apparently wants to genocide them
CNN is backing Trump on something. Let that sink in.
NBC being relatively friendly with Vance, too.
Not saying I don't believe, but do you have sources?
I'll allow the first part could just be propaganda, but I thought they had said "death to the Jews."
As for the second part, it's hard to find exact breakdowns, and definitions can vary based on if you're talking ethnic or religious, but don't the official numbers put Iran at nearly 99% Muslim? Jews, officially, are less than one percent. As low as 0.01%.
Again, not saying those numbers are correct, but that's what I'm seeing.
Meanwhile, the self-described "most famous Iranian Jew" is a hardcore Zionist propagandist calling for the overthrow of Iran.
I guess what I'm saying is, Khamenei is wrong about the Jews. /joke.
I'm actually shocked that you would think such a thing. That's one thing I'm absolutely sure they never said. Of course, I can't prove the negative. Maybe you're thinking of the Iranian proxy houthi slogan "curse on the Jews".
There are about 10,000. For a Middle Eastern country, that is rather large - because they all drove their Jews out because of fighting with Israel. But the significance is that they're mostly left in peace (of course, everyone in Iran is oppressed to some extent, and Jews and Christians probably more than the majority).
Clearly this isn't "kill the Jews".
Security concerns. Do you think any normie would believe that Iran is safer than Israel for a Jew? Hell, I'm not sure I believe it, but it seems some Jews in Iran do.
Lip filler girl? Many such cases.
Damn, my poor boy can't catch a break... Zionists hate him because they think he wants to kill the Jews, and anti-Zionists hate him because he respects the Jews. /joke
Fun fact: Khamenei is older than the state of Israel.
I mean, a lot of people in the region aren't fans of ze Jews. Because most of the Jews in the region are in Israel, as you say, and Israel keeps bombing and otherwise terroristing the crap out of them. As well as the usual religious squabbles on top of that.
I mean, saying and doing are two different things. I wouldn't be shocked if they'd said "kill the Jews," but I agree they're clearly not putting that alleged belief into practice. Agreed completely there. If Iran wanted to kill all the Jews, you'd think they'd start with the ones in their own backyard. No argument.
Similar to how they chant "death to America" (which is clearly a warcrime, and casus belli!), but don't actually do a whole lot of America killing. Despite the propaganda.
Dude, it's heartbreaking. I'm no Iran fanboy, but just like I don't wish for death to either Ukrainians or Russians, I don't want Iranians hurt. And the actual people there, no matter how you feel about the government, are known as some of the absolute friendliest in the region.
As some of the citizens of Our Greatest Ally say Christians belong in Hell, should be spit on, and all that. Openly, in public, without shame.
No, no, no. Israel is like five bazillion years old, bigot.
Everyone in the world is familiar with Islamic attitudes. I more than most. Of course, they disliked the Jews before Israel, simply because they're not Muslims. But that's quite a different matter from saying "kill the Jews", which is beyond the pale by any Islamic standard.
They just love the "death to" chants. Or "down with" as you may translate it. Here's a secret: people in the region are a bit melodramatic, and Iranians probably take the crown on that.
As usual, you're very wholesome.
I was curious, and looked it up.
I know AI isn't reliable, but it is an interesting and easy yardstick. If there was easily accessible information, it would pull it up. It didn't. So I'm inclined to agree; media can't point to Iran saying "death to the Jews."
Brave results (condensed by me):
As the kids say: LOL, LMAO, EVEN.
They have nothing. Essentially: "They don't say death to the Jews, but they don't like Israel, and that's totally the same thing."
Considering the other bullshit this pulled up, I'd need to see specific examples of the "dehumanizing language," and who it was really directed toward.
Result 1: Brave says no, Iran doesn't say death to the Jews.
Google (again condensed by me):
I fucking hate AI-speak. What does that initial paragraph even me? Nothing, basically. It's just wishy-washy nonsense.
Stopping you right there, Google. Moving on.
So, no. No, Iran does not say "Death to the Jews."
I mean, didn't the House pass a law defining saying that Christ was killed by Jews as anti-Semitism? Such conflation are commonplace nowadays, and perhaps always have been (I'm rereading Mearsheimer's Israel Lobby).
Regime change, if you will. Good when the deep state does it, bad when others call for it.
There may well be some nutjobs who attack Jews. But I don't think that marginal people qualifies as "Iran" saying that, no more than you can say that the Israeli state approves of the actions of Dr. Baruch Goldstein because the Minister of the Interior Ben Ghvir does/did. It would have to be someone or an institution able to speak for the state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iran#Population_and_migration
A plummeting population: "Oh yeah, nice place for them to live."
The Ayatollah may not have said himself to kill all jews, but many iranians have. Also iranians are muslim of which one of the core beliefs is to kill or dominate jews:
Quran 9:29
Why has no official fact-checker 'fact-checked' this? To ask the question is to answer it.