Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat report in this morning’s The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s family has Jewsih roots. During the recent Iranian election he held up his identity papers for a photograph. The notations on that document indicate that his family changed their name from Sabourjian to Ahmadinejad after he was born.
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…
The Iranian leader has not denied his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s. But he has never revealed what it was changed from or directly addressed the reason for the switch.
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