The New York Times today reported from Teheran that the Jewish Cultural and Social Association of Iran has addressed a petition to Premier Mohammed Mossadegh asking him to put a stop to the anti-Semitic agitation of semi-Fascist organizations in the country. The Jews in Iran have a Deputy in Parliament and full equality with other Iranian subjects under the constitution and the laws of the land.
The petition, according to the Jewish newspaper Beni Adam, states that certain newspapers friendly to the Government have recently attacked Iranian Jews. The petition requested the Premier, according to the report, “to take action in accord with the constitution and the Charter of the United Nations to bring to an end racial and anti-Semitic propaganda in Iran.”
The Times report said that the agitation against Iranian Jews is centered in the new National Socialist party founded this spring by Davoud Monchi Zadeh, who spent some 20 years in Germany and adopted Hitler’s National Socialist ideology, and the Pan Iranian Party, which has a Fascist approach and a Greater Iran program for expanding Iranian frontiers.
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