Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Worries over Iranian Jews if Israel attacks - TIME

(JERUSALEM) — All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran's suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle.

Although Iran has a history of treating its Jewish minority fairly well, some Iranian Jews who have emigrated to Israel worry that an Israeli attack could expose family and friends still in Iran to retaliation. (MORE: Diplomacy With Iran: Hey, What�s the Hurry?)

Iran's government is "unstable and unpredictable. If there is a war, you can't tell what the response to the community will be," said Kamal Penhasi, who runs Israel's only Persian newspaper, Shahyad, and its companion website.

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Karzai: NATO should scale back, hasten handover - CBS News