the existence of Jews in Iran for the first time, despite the fact
that Iran still remains the largest home to Jews in the Middle East
outside of Turkey and Israel.
As early as the sixth century B.C., Jews, exiled in Babylonia, found a
savior in Persia's Cyrus the Great, who helped them return to Israel.
In the early 1940s, Iran became a refuge to Jews, who were this time
fleeing Hitler's army. Thousands owed their lives to the valorous
conduct of Abdol-Hossein Sardari, the head of Iran's diplomatic
mission in France, who defied Nazi orders by issuing thousands of
passports and travel documents to Jews. Even when President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was in top Holocaust-denying form, the descendants of the
Polish survivors who chose to settle in Iran were laying flowers upon
the graves of their loved ones in what's known as the Polish Cemetery
in Tehran.
Would the two nations allow their rulers to begin a war if they were
aware of their depth of indebtedness to each other? By bombing Iran,
Israel would be bombing a portion of Jewish history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/iran-and-israel-share-bonds.html
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