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Anti-jewish Demonstrations in Persia; Moslem Crowds Should “death to Jews”

January 13, 1948
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Anti-Jewish demonstrations were held here today and yesterday with Moslem demonstrators shouting "death to the Jews." Seyd Abolghassem ##sheni, a Moslem leader, addressing a mass-meeting, called for a "holy war" against Jewish atrocities." Kashani was imprisoned during the war for Nazi sympathies.The Persian weekly newspaper Mard Embrooz published an article charging that ##ranches of the Haganah" are active in Persia. The agitation by Moslem leaders here directed against Hindus as well as Jew.

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