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Quote by: GodBlessAmerica I take it you exclude the fact they were also Nazis with Germany trying to exterminate them? http://www.iranian.com/Pictory/2004/...mages/nazi.jpg

Germany and Iran had strong commercial and diplomatic ties back then. You can fault that them for that, but credit them for this:

During WW II, Iranian consular office in France was instrumental in saving Iranian and non-Iranian Jews from prosecutions by Nazi Germany. In the context of Iran's good diplomatic relations with Germany, Iran could save the lives of Iranian Jews and no Iranian Jews were killed by Nazi Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Shah_Pahlavi

Hence why there was much larger amount of Jews that survived the Holocaust in Iran than in other places:

At the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, there were approximately 140,000–150,000 Jews living in Iran. Up until the '79 Islamic Revolution there were 80,000 Jews in Iran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_Iran


Yes the Persian/Irans did treat the Jews as 2nd class citizens, but still better than most place in the world, especially better than Europe and Russia.