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According to the latest news from British journal Daily Telegraph, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmanidejad has Jewish origins. Is it possible that one of the most distinctive enemy’s of State Israel and its people and man who denies holocaust is really a Hebrew according to his bloodline? Unfortunately in this case, human history teaches us that everything is possible.

According to the latest news from British journal Daily Telegraph, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmanidejad has Jewish origins. Is it possible that one of the most distinctive enemy’s of State Israel and its people and man who denies holocaust is really a Hebrew according to his bloodline? Unfortunately in this case, human history teaches us that everything is possible.

As a proof of this claim Daily Telegraph brings us photography of Ahmanidejad from March 2008 in which he is showing his identification card. That ID shows us that Mahmoud last name used to be Saburdijan which is traditional surname of Iranian Jews from place Aradana. The word Saburdijan means “weaver” and it was last name of those who were making fabric for “sabur” which is the prayer shawl of Iranian Jews.

Ahmanidejad was born in Aradana and lived there until he was four years old. After that he and his parents moved to Teheran and converted to Islam. Religion conversion led to surname change. If Mahmoud and his family really have Hebrew origins than they probably belong to one of the Jewish “ten lost tribes” that assimilated with ancient Assyrians.

In Iran today the 90% of population are Muslim Shiites. Amount of Hebrew is estimated between 25 and 40 thousand.

How to explain that kind of conversion and hate directed toward possibly his own people?

Political circumstances in Iran are in tight connection with religion. That wouldn’t be a big problem if that religion isn’t intolerant toward other religions.

Some intellectuals agree that with his negative attitude toward Israel Ahmanidejad is reacting like most religiously converted people. He is trying to proof his loyalty to his new identity by hating his old one.

Ali Nurizadi from “The Center of Arabian and Iranian studies” said: “Every family who changes their fate receives a new identity by condemning their old fate”.

There are speculations that the Iranian scientist and blogger Mehdi Khazali was the first one who published information about Ahmanidejad origins. Consequences for his action were doing some time in jail and censorship stopped spreading of that information.

If the statements in this article are true than the conclusion would be that Mahmoud Ahmanidejad is in conflict with himself.