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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret.

Evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.

- By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat - 7:30AM BST - October 03, 2009 - The Daily Telegraph

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

Ahmadinejad showing papers during the election. It shows that his family's previous name was Jewish.  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 Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia.  The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.

Experts have suggested that Mr. Ahmadinejad's track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past, and not to raise any suspicions that his loyalty lays with Jews and Israel, but not with Iran / Persia and the Iranian / Persian people.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Jews in Iran

Iran is home to the biggest population of Jews in the Middle East outside Israel

- By Damien McElroy - 4:15PM BST - October 03, 2009 - The Daily Telegraph

Iran is home to the biggest population of Jews in the Middle East outside Israel. While the community faces limited discrimination, it is largely free to exercise the same rights as Muslims enjoy in the Islamic republic.

Like the country's Armenian, Assyrian and Zoroastrian minorities, it has one reserved seat in parliament.

Jews trace their presence in Iran from the point that Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from slavery in Babylon in 593BC. There are about 25,000 Jews left in Iran. Tehran has 20 active synagogues. But the Jewish population has dwindled rapidly since an Islamic theocracy was established. At the end of the King of Iran's reign, there were an estimated 100,000 Jews. Esther, the legendary empress and wife of Ahasuerus, was Jewish.

The community played a prominent role in commercial life and supplied several prime ministers. Sensitive posts in the judiciary and military are barred from Jews.

Maurice Motamed, the country's Jewish MP, has criticised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denials of the Holocaust but is otherwise a staunch supporter of the radical president's foreign and security policies. "I am an Iranian first and a Jew second," he said.

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