Do iranians hate jews?

Just wait till the end of the post and you will find your impartial answer.

 We knew that jewish people have unfortunately deplorable history of diaspora , slavery, torture , sanctions and anti-Semitism.

When Nebuchadnezar ancient Babylonian  king conquered Jerusalem (6^th century  bc) and evicted jews and exiled them to Babylon ,they were living in misery and disappointment until righteous king was born and new empire blossomed  .when cyrus's reputation was heard by jews, they got enthusiastic about his just , governance .

soon a group of jews's leaders secretly escaped and went to cyrus' court , and when they arrived they were received warmly by cyrus .They complained against Babylonian's cruelty to cyrus and begged him to help .

It was risky and dangerous and until then no one had accepted their pleas. Persian empire  was at its springtime, but Babylonians were so strong and no one could defeat them .

But determined decisions are made by determined rulers ,and cyrus did that ,he decided to liberate jews and to punish Babylonians for their brutality , diplomatic negotiations fell short so thousands of Iranian soldiers were deployed to Babylon and they put their lives in danger to conquer Babylonian and to liberate jews , finally with cyrus's intelligence and Iranian soldiers bravery Babylonians were defeated .

Cyrus didn't take revenge of Babylonians (despite those days fashion of beheading and torturing ) and respect them, for the first time in mankind history, he ordered the human rights he freed jews and provided them with supplies and money and escorted them to the Jerusalem a part of jews who witnessed Iranians generosity, decided not to go to Jerusalem and to immigrate to Persia (current iran ) instead, and to live under Iranians just and comfort. (this story is written in old testament too ).

Cyrus the Great with freed jews

Years and centuries passed Iranian recognized jewish people as inseparable part of their society muslims, jews and Christians lived together brotherly (yes sometimes there was discrimination but it is inseparable part of multicultural society too ) until the WWII, when sorrowfully a lot of jews were slaughtered by Nazis .

After the war, coalition forces particularly Britain decided to solve their problem of anti-semitisim in European countries  by establishing Zionist party and sending jews to promised land (as they call it ) a land which was calm until then, and different people with different faiths were living together with no significant problems .

With more immigrants were arriving more clashes were happening  ,disputed claims were made , with inflammatory role of some western and eastern countries soon wars began thousand of innocent people were died and millions of natives   were forced to abandon their homes, it was (is) unbelievable to see people can go on to do others what was once done to it.

Jews continue to live with their muslim neighbors but Zionism somehow was a threat for them as they sometimes were considered as Zionists (who forced palestinans to abandon their homes ) by arabs.

Muslim governments like Iranian have the obligation towards their public's opinion  and that’s why we see hostile rhetoric from both Israeli and Iranian governments every so often.

But the truth that is hidden, is that still a lot of jews live in iran and even in 8 year war between iran and iraq a lot of patriot iranian jews were killed in defence of their homeland .

Iranian have no animosity  against jews , some of  reason for would be their freedom to have churches ,they have advocates and members in parliament and even exclusive permission to travel back and forth to israel ( current Iranian government archenemy ),etc.

Iranian synagogue shiraz
courtesy of www.iranjewish.com

Now the important matter is type of Israeli regime ,Zionism which every day become more aggressor (some may disagree and that would be respected ) that not only iranian's government opposes but whole muslim countries and even western countries criticize it .

As a result Iranians do not hate jews at all , and even before they  sacrificed themselves for their liberation and prosperity , but most of them have some serious criticizes against Zionism like other people all around the world.