Article by Viory
Members of the Jewish community in Tehran held a memorial service for the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital.
Footage filmed on Thursday at the Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue in the Yousef Abad neighbourhood shows worshippers listening to prayers and reciting the Torah.
Younes Hamami, the head of the Jewish community in Iran, said the community has long lived in peace alongside the Iranian people and enjoys full freedom to practise its religious rituals within its places of worship.
He reiterated the community’s solidarity with the Iranian people and its commitment to following the path of the late leader.
“The ceremony also commemorates our martyred leader and expresses gratitude to the Iranian Armed Forces for their victory over the American-Zionist enemy,” said Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, representative of the Jewish community in the Iranian parliament.
According to Iranian media, between 8,000 and 10,000 Jews currently live in the country, more than half of them in Tehran.
On April 6, the Ravi-Nia synagogue in central Tehran was reportedly destroyed in alleged Israeli airstrikes. The Israeli army has not commented on the incident.
On April 8, Washington and Tehran reached a conditional two-week ceasefire, followed by talks in Islamabad mediated by Pakistan, which ended without a final agreement.
Article by Viory
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