Ayatollah says "Happy Chanukah"

Imprisoned Iranian Ayatollah Offers Hanukkah Greetings  -Stephen Schwartz

Iranian Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi [pictured] has been held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison since 2006. Heir to a distinguished Shia clerical family, Boroujerdi preaches the pre-Khomeini interpretation of Iranian Shiism, which calls for religion to be kept apart from politics. He has continued, from his cell, to denounce the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declaring that the regime's "behavior is no different from that of Osama bin Laden."

Boroujerdi and his group have lately issued a message to the world's Jews, congratulating them on the Hanukkah holiday. The group contrasts its attitude with that of "the current anti-Semitic regime of Iran," which it accuses of sowing animosity and hatred between the descendants of Abraham, the common ancestor of Jews and Arabs.
(Weekly Standard)
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