As Reported by Qods News Agency (Qodsna) “Even the Torah is distorted to serve Iranophobia. What it actually says: Persian king saved Jews from captivity in Babylon. Another Persian king saved Jews from genocide. Genocide plotter hailed from Negev, not Persia. Persian king is only foreigner referred to as MESSIAH,” Zarif said in a message posted on his Twitter on Sunday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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\r\nEven the Torah is distorted to serve Iranophobia. What it actually says:
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\r\n-Persian king saved Jews from captivity in Babylon.
\r\n-Another Persian king saved Jews from genocide.
\r\n-Genocide plotter hailed from Negev, not Persia.
\r\n-Persian king is only foreigner referred to as MESSIAH.<\/p>\r\n— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) March 22, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\nThe tweet came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that it was possible God raised New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump to be president in order to protect Israel from Iran.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Pompeo traveled to Jerusalem al-Quds this week and made a controversial visit to the Buraq Wall, called by Israel as the Wailing Wall, in the Old City. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
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The visit made him the highest-ranking US official to visit the site with any Israeli leader and appeared to further signal the Trump administration’s support for Israel’s control of the contested city.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Asked “could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?" he said, "As a Christian, I certainly believe that's possible”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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John Kirby, a former State Department spokesman, reacted to Pompeo’s remarks, describing them as “laughable”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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"Secretary Pompeo's assertion that President Trump may have been sent by God to save Israel would be laughable on its face if it weren't yet another indication that our Secretary of State recklessly crosses the line that should exist between church and state," he said. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Esther is the main heroine of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which was celebrated this week. According to Jewish accounts, Persian King Xerxes I discovered a plot by his viceroy Haman the Agagite who hailed from Negev to slaughter Jews some 2,500 years ago and had him executed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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This is not the first time that the legend has featured in Israeli leaders' anti-Iran narrative. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
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In a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in March 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Persia had made “an attempt to destroy the Jewish people that did not succeed.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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