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Iran Denies Rosh Hashanah Greeting to Jews
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by JNS.org
President Hassan Rouhani. Photo: Iranian government.
JNS.org – The Iranian media has denied that the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, sent a Rosh Hashanah greeting to Jews.
A Sept. 4 message from the Twitter handle @HassanRouhani had stated, “As the sun is about to set here in Tehran, I wish all Jews, especially Iranian Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah.”
Major media outlets picked up on the tweet, including CNN, whose headline was “Iranian president’s surprising message to Jews.” CNN wrote that Rouhani’s message marked “a sharp shift from his Holocaust-denying predecessor,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
But Rouhani’s presidential advisor, Mohammad Reza Sadeq, told Fars News Agency that the tweet was falsely reported because Rouhani “does not have a Twitter account.” Sadeq compared the situation to the recent Iranian president election, when “proponents and fans of Mr. Rouhani were active in the cyberspace during the recent presidential election in Iran and used many web pages with titles similar or close to [the name of] Mr. Rouhani to run their activities.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that he was “not impressed” with Rouhani’s Rosh Hashanah message because Iran “will be judged only by its actions and not by greetings.” The purpose of such greetings, Netanyahu said, was to deflect attention from the Iranian nuclear program.
Iranian Press TV quoted Rouhani as saying in August, “After all, in our region there has been a wound for years on the body of the Muslim world under the shadow of the occupation of the holy land of Palestine and the beloved al-Quds.”
