The only Jewish MP in the Iranian parliament will join Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani in the US at the UN General Assembly in a bid to help revamp Tehran’s image in the international community, theGuardian reported on Thursday night.
Siamak Moreh Sedgh, who represents Iran’s Jewish community and holds a reserved seat in the Iranian parliament, previously attended the UN General Assembly meet as a part of a delegation led by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, according to theWashington Free Beacon.
He is a vocal anti-Zionist, who blasted Israel and Zionism in 2009 in a speech to commemorate “Al-Quds day.”
“On this day, in concert with the Muslim nations, the country’s Jews will direct their anti-iniquity cries against all servants of imperialism and Zionism,“ he was quoted by Iranian news agency Fars as saying.
He also helped stage a 2008 rally outside UN offices in Tehran against "Israeli war crimes and the slaughter of the innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” according to Israeli media reports.
Sedgh is said to be joining Rouhani in New York to show the world that the Islamic Republic is not against Jews.
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