Iranian foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, cited the Scroll of Esther and the Book of Ezra to try and make the case that Israel has nothing to fear from Iran and the Persian people.
In an NBC interview Wednesday, Zarif said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “totally distorts the realities of today.”
“He even distorts his own scripture. If you read the book of Esther, you will see that it was the Iranian king who saved the Jews. If you read the Old Testament, you will see that it was an Iranian king who saved the Jews from Babylon. Esther has a town in Iran where our Jewish population, which is the largest in the Middle East, visit on a regular basis. (Read More)
