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Report: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Secretly Jewish

2009_09_mahmoud2.jpg Shocking claim from British newspaper the Daily Telegraph: Iranian leader (and Holocaust denier) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Jewish!

The Telegraph reports, "A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots"—see photo here—"A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian - a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies' Ali Nourizadeh suggests the Iranian leader could be overcompensating for his past with his vitriol: "By making anti-Israeli statements he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. He feels vulnerable in a radical Shia society."

After Ahmadinejad's speech to the U.N. last month, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu (during his speech) showed the Nazi's blueprints of an Auschwitz gas chamber to show there was in fact a Holocaust.

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  • NannyState

    Mazel tov A-jad! So...you'll be needing a new suit?

  • Sommelier

    "Secretly Jewish"? Aren't we all?

  • djchaser

    I have on good authority that he both owns and regularly watches the first, second and third seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm on DVD- and has been attempting to acquire the fourth from Libya.

  • matty

    I don't believe this whatsoever.

  • gawkthis

    Maybe now he'll prove his hatred of the jews and kill himself.

  • David

    He's probably gay, too.

  • whatstheproblem

    Rumors have existed for years in the middle East he was Jewish and secretly working for Israel by keeping the situation unstable. An unstable middle east makes for higher oil prices. Fun game isn't it. The game is fixed.



    In fact if you want to see other clever games the ruling class plays, go to youtube and search Dan Ackroyd UFO. Technology exists that most people wouldn't dream of. Welcome to the New World Order.

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