A report has appeared on the (not always reliable) DEBKAfile website that thousands of letters have been sent from addresses in the USA and Europe urging Jewish families in Iran to leave.
"The letters, according to DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources, have been posted to Jewish families in Tehran (where the community numbers some 13,000), Isfahan (under 2,000) and Shiraz (some 4,000). They are captioned: Danger! Danger! Danger! and tell recipients to try and reach the West with all possible speed. Iranian Jews like the rest of the population face grave danger from impending events, the anonymous writers warn.
"The letters posted to Iranian Jews, our sources report, are not signed; they were postmarked from different towns in America and Europe and from private addresses so as not to raise the suspicions of Iranian security services.
"All the same, some were discovered and confiscated, prompting Tehran to accuse Israel and World Zionist organizations of a campaign to scare its Jewish citizens.
"In recent months, Iranian officials angrily held up a new Israeli offer of a one-time grant of $10,000 to every Iranian Jew migrating to Israel over and above the regular grants for other immigrants. Learning of these incentives, the Iranian authorities not long ago ordered the Jewish deputy in the Majlis, Maurice Motamed, to declare that the Jews of Iran cannot be bought for money and would never forsake their country."
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