Report: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born a Jew

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 -- 11:31 am
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ahmadinejad Report: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born a JewIn a stunning report on Saturday, a British newspaper claimed to have uncovered proof that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- notorious among the international community for denying the holocaust -- was actually born a Jew.

According to The Telegraph, a high resolution photograph of Ahmadinejad holding up his Iranian identity card, taken just before the 2008 election, reveals that his family changed its name shortly after he was born, renouncing their Jewish faith and adopting Islam.

"A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver," the UK paper reported.

"The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior," noted Israeli publication YNet News.

At the annual Quds Day rally in Tehran last month, the Iranian president reiterated his denial of the holocaust and blasted the Israeli government.

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Ali Nourizadeh, with the Center for Arab and Iranian Studies, suggested to The Telegraph that having a Jewish background "explains a lot" about one of the key ruling figures of a Muslim nation.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany have all issued statements slamming Ahmadinejad's latest outburst dismissing the killing of some six million Jews of occupied Europe by the Nazis during World War II.

“The very existence of this regime is an insult to the dignity of the people,” the hardline president said of Israel. “They (the Western powers) launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews.

“The pretext for establishing the Zionist regime is a lie… a lie which relies on an unreliable claim, a mythical claim, and the occupation of Palestine has nothing to do with the Holocaust,” he added. “This claim is corrupt and the pretext is corrupt. This (the Israeli) regime’s days are numbered and it is on its way to collapse. This regime is dying.”

During a televised debate leading up to his disputed reelection, Ahmadinejad was forced to admit his name had been changed, but he did not address the issue further, The Telegraph noted.

Accusations of Ahmadinejad's Jewish history have been floating around on the Internet since Mehdi Khazali, the son of Ayatollah Khazali, called for an investigation into his family origins on a blog. Khazali was later arrested amid protests of Ahmadinejad's disputed reelection.

With AFP

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  • Jeff
    Actually I think that Iran is fake and ackwardmanjhihad is the lead in the miidle east sitcom of sandiggers and the bitch state, a tale of violence addiction among the ignorant. God is great OY!

    I'm still laughing at the comedy of these story lines - next we will find out that the Quuen of England is actually a middle class marm - oh wait she is!

    I think that the greatest gift that religions have brought to the world is the enormous psychosis of stratification and separation that they foist nto the minds of the impressionable ignorant - add to that the users and abusers of this bed of ignorance, an voila you have international politics and power mongers who greedily conquer by any means possible so that they can become rich and control others. When will this pathetic system give it up?
  • Phil E. Drifter
    When will this pathetic system give it up?

    Nev4r. It makes some people rich and powerful, and it makes others middle class, and it makes others lower class.
  • Satan
    Great timing with the new declaration that Iran has the knowhow to build a nuke. Why should any one care except that it's a broader part of a propaganda campaign targeted at us. From the way the media shits propaganda at people, one might almost get the impression that there were lots of Jews all over the place, when in fact there's twice as many Sikhs. I don't see any Sikhs around, sure here and there, every once in a while, but...

    For some weird reason, the media is always talking about Israel and Jews, like anyone should really give more of a flying fuck about them than anyone else. Tiny nation with a tiny population that literally can't survives without American subsidies, and they have nukes. That's nice, shut up.
  • danel
    I think the reason why the west particularly the US is so against Ahmadinejad is bacause he speaks the truth about the plight of the Palistinians. He questioned the logic behind the relevance of holocaust to the Palistian land being given to the Israelis. Where the holocaust happened in Germany.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    Whatever their claims are, it's whites/jews against brown islam.
  • sparkey
    Our government knew he was born a Jew. The reason he wasn't outed is simple. We needed the boogie-man to be against the Jewish state and to make it easier for the U.S. to go to war with Iran. We couldn't go to war with Iran if they had a Jewish leader. Remember, we are defending the Jews and Isreal. This news will make it more difficult invade their country.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/cia/

    "Iran was representative of the CIA's seeming inability to comprehend the Islamic and Middle Eastern mindsets, resulting in countless examples of "blowback," the agency's term for covert operations in which U.S.-supported operatives subsequently turn against their sponsors."

    "Bin Laden was a member of a small army of Islamic Jihadists fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s. The strategic minds of the CIA decided that this whole jihad thing looked like a great idea, and provided funding and weaponry to the mujahideen fighters, hoping to enflame the global Muslim community into jihad against the Soviets. The success of that strategy speaks for itself."

    etc
  • lordbalto
    "Outed"? It's a crime to be Jewish? Or to have Jewish ancestors? Adolf Hitler had a Jewish grandmother. It didn't make him a better person. Judaism is a religion, and to some extent a nationality. It's even been described a voluntary association. It isn't a race, as some of you idiots seem to think. If Ahmadinejad decided he no longer wanted to associate with Jews, that's his right. This has nothing to do with holocaust denial or anything else.
  • yvonneo
    And somehow this news is just now getting out there. Are we supposed to believe that no one in the international community--none of our leaders--Israel, US, UK--no one knew of this until now? With all of the international intelligence available, it seems inconceivable that this wasn't known before now. Hmmmm.....I guess if some people wanted to demonize other people by making them out to be hateful racists, information such as this could prove inconvenient.

    Obviously, if Ahmadinejad was born a jew then he's still a jew, he just doesn't practice the jewish religion. So he couldn't possibly be anti-semitic (as many have portrayed him to be), he's just totally against the zionist regime of Israel specifically, not the "Jewish people" as a whole.
  • lordbalto
    Errnnt! Wrong. He's no longer a Jew. If a Christian renounces Christianity, by your logic he's still a Christian. Is that what you really want to say? Most Christians are Europeans and descendants of folks who lived under the Roman Empire. Does this make them a race? You really need to think through your comments before hitting that [Enter] button.
  • kingfish46815
    If this is true it gives enormous credence to the possibility to the claim that the so called Holocaust was faked.
  • Mr. Neutron
    He didn't say the Holocaust was faked.

    He said they created a "myth" around a real event, making it larger, more evil, more fantastic so that countries would feel more sorry for the Jewish people and give them a "Homeland" after their WWII ordeal.

    If the West covered his conference on the Holocaust (rather than just scream about the fact that he had such a conference), they would know he just called for an impartial investigation into the events, without the hysteria (partly as a dig on the West's hypocritical "Free Press" that allowed cartoons against Islam to be published). Like the collaboration of the French with the conquering Nazi's, the French people were not ready to face history with impartiality for many decades. The "West" makes the Holocaust taboo: no further study needed.

    Did 6 million Jews die, or 3 million ? How do they know ? How many Gypsies died ? How many homosexuals ? You don't hear of the other victims. The records show one camp killed 236,000, yet 1.5 million deaths are claimed there. Why ? Aren't Germans anal about their records ? How many prisoners died from starvation - weren't the German people starving too, towards the end of the war ? Why would they waste food on prisoners ? Why were so many Jews still alive in the camps (although starving) when the Allies rolled into town - what happened to the "All Burned" (Holo - caust). Did the Nazi's run out of bullets ? Or just food ?

    Etc. If you ask such questions in Europe, you can go to jail. If you ask such questions in the U.S., you can lose your job.
    Why ?
  • yvonneo
    Don't you know? We're not supposed to talk of such matters.

    Obviously, the Israeli govt doesn't want anyone questioning their historical version of events, particularly as it relates to the holocaust--period. Asking too many questions might lead to inconvenient truths; otherwise, why should it matter to them, the facts would bear them out no matter what and it would silent the skeptics. But no, instead, Israel has managed to convince many world leaders to make it a "crime" to question anything about the holocaust at all--this may be the first "thought" crime (and has only lead to more suspicion that we've not heard the truth). If there's nothing to hide, then what's the problem?.

    Freedom of speech as it relates to Israel and the holocaust apparently does not exist. How is it that such a tiny little country has so much control in the world?Regardless of Israel's protestations to the contrary, it seems quite apparent that they wield a great deal of power and influence over world leaders for some inexplicable reason.

    And Ahmadinejad isn't the only leader of jewish descent--I think France's leader, Sarkozy, is of jewish descent as well. So how many others--maybe that would answer the question of "why?"
  • lordbalto
    6000000 Jews. 2000000 others. Not to mention the millions who died in the war the Nazi lunatics unleashed.

    How do we know? We take what is known for a particular time period and we project that figure over the entire existence of the camp. There's also the fact that we have reasonable estimates of Jewish populations in Europe before and after the holocaust. You did learn subtraction in school? Standard scientific procedure. Nothing fancy. Perhaps if you transferred out of that Madrasah and went to a real school you might understand this arcane stuff about statistics.
  • Bubba
    Why is this news? More Satan making from the 'popular press'.. Furthermore, AJD doesn't like Zioninsts, I dont believe he has ever said anything bad about Jews. His issue with the holocaust seems to boil down to the evil way in which the Zionists use its memory for their own genocidal ends. He speaks more truth in five seconds than any of the crap that comes out of the likes of CNN, Fox etc. I wonder when 'serious journalists' will stop taking their stories straight from Likud press releases?
  • Phil E. Drifter
    wtf do you mean 'why is this news' THIS IS FUCKING HUGE
  • Phil E. Drifter
    it's not about the 'zionists' it's about the bankers. bankers promote perpetual wars to inflate their artificial monetary system, making themselves rich beyond belief.

    Look at how all these huge corporations got bailouts that totalled billions if not trillions, joe q. public remains joe q. public, capitalizing on the stupitidy of people who join the military.

    "It's the bankers, stupid." not calling you stupid, just quoting a phrase.
  • danel
    Is holocaust exclusive only to the jews? How may Palistinians died since the creation of Israel? How many Iraqis and Afghanistan died since the invasion? Can Palistinians, Iraqis and Afghanistan claims holocaust as well?
  • Lyman
    Give me a break. He doesn't look Jewish. He's a Persian !!!
    And who gives a crap anyway? We live on this tiny speck
    called Earth....an insignificant planet orbiting an equally insignificant
    star two thirds of the way out on the Sagitarian arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
    Here's the deal, everybody: We continue to rape our planet, torture our ethnic
    minorities into oblivion, and just go on thinking that everything is going to turn
    out fine. Well it isn't going to. If we don't get our shit together real soon and come
    to realize that we are all Earthlings and deserve equal rights to live and to thrive,
    then we will all perish together. Wouldn't that just be totally fucking stupid?
  • lordbalto
    He's a Persian Jew. There are many Persian Jews. I once knew a woman who sold oriental rugs and she got them from an Iranian Jew who flew them in from Iran.
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