I’m still catching up with news from the weekend. Turns out that Iranian president Mahmoud “The Holocaust is a myth” Ahmadinejad is, um, Jewish:
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian — a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver….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 change from or directly addressed the reason for the switch.
I will shortly be announcing that I am descended from Republicans. More on that story later.
UPDATE: Then again, maybe not.
