The year, Rosh Hashanah comes at a particularly fragile time for relations between the United States, Iran, and Israel, as Mr. Obama and Mr. Rouhani come close to pushing through a historic deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program in return for a reduction in international sanctions, which have stymied the country’s economy for years.
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Twitter users ridiculed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday, after he posted a message wishing Jews well for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, celebrated on Monday and Tuesday. “L’Shanah Tovah“, wrote the Iranian president.
The tweet, written in English, was not posted on the Farsi language account most Iranians would see.
Iran’s Jewish group dates again almost three, 000 years. The report reveals that currently around 20,000 jews are still in Iran.
Tensions with Iranian Jews grew under hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who repeatedly called the Holocaust “a myth” and even sponsored an international conference in 2006 to debate whether the Holocaust ever really took place.
“Mr. Rouhani does not have a tweeter (sic) account”, presidential adviser Mohammad Reza Sadeq was quoted by Iran’s Fars news agency as saying on the matter.
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Since Rouhani took office, his government agreed to allow Jewish schools to be closed on Saturdays to mark Shabbat, the day of rest.
