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Wiesenthal Centre Slams Iranian Vice President as “Little Hitler”

PARIS - Mohsen Rezaee, one of the suspects behind the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish Centre bombing, as Commander inChief of the Revolutionary Guard is now Vice-President of Iran for Economic Affairs.

“According to a report by the highly regarded MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), Rezaee threatens to hold the 10,000 Jewswho remained in Iran, as hostages - using the language of Hitler,” claimed Shimon Samuels, the Centre’s Director for International Relations.

The Centre, in co-sponsorship with Harif - Association of Jews from the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) - is focussing on thepogroms, executions and expulsions of over 800,000 MENA Jews. These refugees, in the main, made new lives in the fledgling State of Israel...

“80,000 Iranian Jews of the 2,000-year-old Persian community fled the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The remaining 10,000 are nowin mortal danger. There must be outrage from the international community," ... "Iran’s mantra is: ‘The Holocaust is a lie, let’s make it a reality!’”

“Little Hitler” Mohsen Rezai - on Interpol's Wanted list for the Buenos Aires massacre - is now threatening 10,000 Iranian Jews. Hisboss, President Ebrahim Raisi nicknamed “the Butcher of Tehran” has greater intent, the nuclear genocide of the Jewish State...

Appeasement in the 1930s resulted in “Big Hitler’s” warning, first to the Jews of Berlin, resulting in the six million Jews and somany millions more in mass graves and death camps.

“The Iranian regime's threat to its Jewish citizens is an alarm bell. Iran should be held accountable for its leaders' words anddeeds, which make it effectively a pariah state, ending all JCPOA nuclear negotiations as a sick joke. 10,000 Persian Jews are only the beginning,” concluded Samuels.


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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agenciesincluding the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).

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