At least five Jews arrested during Iran protests

One student was arrested for flying a drone, an act prohibited to any civilian under the strict Islamic regime.

At least five Iranian Jews were arrested by Iranian security forces over the last few weeks during nationwide protests engulfing the theocratic Islamic state.

Karmel Melamed, an Iranian-American journalist who has deep sourcing within the Persian Jewish community in Iran and in the Iranian Diaspora, told the Post that "my contact source who is in contact with the Jewish leadership in Iran has confirmed that indeed five Jews have been arrested in Iran recently, but one was released after a one-week detention.”

He added that "the four remaining Jews are still in jail, awaiting adjudication of their cases by the Iranian authorities along with many other young people who have been arrested for their involvement in the protests. Of the four Jews are in custody, two of them are university students from Tehran who were rounded up with the scores of other student protestors.”

Melamed, who has written extensively about Iranian Jews, said “one of the Jews in custody is a Jewish student from Shiraz who was arrested for flying a small drone in his city. The flying of any drones by civilians is strictly prohibited by the Iranian regime.”

According to Melamed, “right now, the Jewish leadership in Tehran is working closely with the regime's authorities to help secure their release.”

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At least five Jews arrested by Iran during protests against Islamic Republic (Jerusalem Post)

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