Experts: Iran's Jews to vote for Ahmadinejad
He's denied the Holocaust a number of times, and continues to threaten Israel, but the majority of Iran's 25,000 Jews are still expected to support the current president in Friday's elections. 'They want to be on the winning side,' experts explain
Yael Levy
Several thousand of these eligible voters belong to the Jewish community within the Islamic State, and, contrary to what some may believe, experts estimate that most of these Jews will actually be casting a ballot with current
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
name on it.
In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space
Some 25,000 Jews still live in Iran and many say that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fiery anti-Israeli rhetoric is about
politics, not religion.
A Synagogue amid mosques: A Jewish man at the Yousefabad Synagogue last month in Tehran, Iran. Some 25,000 to 30,000 Jews live relatively freely among
the country's majority Shiite Muslims.