{"id":326101,"date":"2026-04-16T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326101"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:56:15","slug":"israeli-attack-on-tehran-synagogue-proves-complete-hatred-for-irans-jews-jewish-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326101","title":{"rendered":"Israeli attack on Tehran synagogue proves &#8216;complete hatred&#8217; for Iran&#8217;s Jews: Jewish MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Alireza Hashemi \u2013 Press TV April 7, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The Israeli regime&#8217;s missile strike on a synagogue in central Tehran on Tuesday proves its &#8220;complete hatred&#8221; for the Jewish community of Iran and exposes its false claims of protecting Jews worldwide, says a senior Iranian lawmaker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi, the representative of the Jewish community in Iran&#8217;s parliament and head of the Tehran Jewish Association, spoke to the Press TV website after the Israeli-US attacks on Tuesday, including against the Rafinia Synagogue in the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three buildings were completely destroyed, and many people were injured, even in buildings far from the explosion,&#8221; Sameyah said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy books and sacred objects also suffered extensive damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said the aggression, which comes amid the unprovoked and illegal war on Iran, reflects the Tel Aviv regime&#8217;s deep-seated animosity toward Iran&#8217;s Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This attack demonstrates the complete hatred of the Zionist regime towards the Jews of Iran,&#8221; he told the Press TV website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have always been loyal to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we have been and will continue to be involved in the development and security of Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Absolute bombshell on Press TV. An Iranian Jewish citizen speaks out from the rubble of a Tehran synagogue destroyed by US and Israeli bombs. He confirms Iranian Jews are fiercely anti-Zionist and exposes the regime for targeting places of worship. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjxqILonjq\">pic.twitter.com\/rjxqILonjq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Furkan G\u00f6z\u00fckara (@FurkanGozukara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FurkanGozukara\/status\/2041531958304403746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He explained his perception of the regime&#8217;s motive in the attack, describing the Iranian Jewish community as a victim of the very regime that claims to act in their name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the regime sees a Jewish community cooperating with its enemy, it becomes angry and shows its anger in this way,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Najafabadi said the strike on a place of worship contradicts Israel&#8217;s repeated claims of safeguarding Jewish communities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attacking a synagogue is a great insult to the Jews of Iran and the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This attack contradicts the claim of supporting Jews worldwide and shows that they are lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;Zionists use Judaism as a cover\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Jewish lawmaker emphasized that Jewish communities globally oppose the Zionist regime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that this regime is not religious and is not committed to faith, and the Zionists themselves know this,&#8221; Najafabadi noted<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But they have latched onto Judaism as a cover to legitimize themselves and use it as a tool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s religious justifications for waging war on Iran, including his characterization of Iran as &#8220;Amalek,&#8221; Najafabadi dismissed the claims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least 90 percent of Netanyahu&#8217;s claims do not appear in the Torah or other religious texts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The US and Israel have attacked a synagogue in a Jewish neighborhood in central Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Press TV&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iammoeen14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iammoeen14<\/a> reports from Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWoNSpkc2J\">https:\/\/t.co\/LWoNSpkc2J<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CT2gwlX1pJ\">pic.twitter.com\/CT2gwlX1pJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/2041526408774656121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish lawmaker maintained that the actions of the regime do not represent the beliefs of Jews worldwide and that Netanyahu is effectively &#8220;lying&#8221; to manufacture a religious mandate for the war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These claims, and the actions and behavior of the Zionist regime, are not part of the beliefs of Jews around the world. He is lying,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has for many years used biblical metaphors to justify a war of aggression on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>By falsely framing Iran as a modern-day &#8220;Amalek,&#8221; Netanyahu has attempted to cast the brutal war of aggression as a sacred, historical duty for the survival of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Israel launched their unprovoked war on Iran on February 28, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, top-ranking commanders, and striking nuclear facilities, schools, hospitals and places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on the Rafineya Synagogue is one of many strikes on civilian and religious sites across Iran since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Jewish leaders have consistently rejected any link to Zionism, affirming their allegiance to the Islamic Republic and their condemnation of Israeli policies.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s minister of culture and Islamic guidance, Abbas Salehi, wrote on X that the \u201cdamage and destruction of the Jewish synagogue building in central Tehran is bitter and distressing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/04\/07\/766469\/israeli-strike-tehran-synagogue-proves-hatred-iran-jews-mpcomplete-\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You haven\u2019t heard about this from the Western mainstream media because it exposes the myth about Iran\u2019s \u2018anti-Semitism\u2019 and Israel being a refuge for Jews. Last week Israeli warplanes targeted and destroyed a synagogue in Tehran\u2019s Jewish quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":326102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326122,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326101\/revisions\/326122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}