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2020-05-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Iran reportedly set ablaze
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[IsraelTimes] An ancient shrine revered by Iranian Jews as the burial place of the biblical Esther and Mordechai was reportedly set on fire overnight, US Jewish groups said Friday.
The Simon Weisenthal Center human rights
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organization said it had received confirmation of the arson attack from Iranian activists.
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There was no immediate information on the damage caused by the fire. The reported arson came on May 14, the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel.
"Historically, Moslems safeguarded Jewish holy sites from Persia to Morocco, including the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai. But all that has changed under the Ayatollahs and the terrorist movements they have spawned. In recent years there have been annual anti-Semitic protests at the Holy Site where Jews have come to pray peacefully for hundreds of years," the Simon Weisenthal Center said in a statement, comparing the "barbaric attack" to Nazi desecrations of Jewish sites.
"Disturbing reports from #Iran
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that the tomb of Esther & Mordechai, a holy Jewish site, was set afire overnight," tweeted Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, without citing the sources of the report.
"We hope that the authorities bring the perpetrators of this #antisemitic act to justice & commit to protecting the holy sites of all religious minorities in Iran," Greenblatt said.
The incident followed reports in February that Iranians were threatening to raze the shrine in an act of Dire Revenge against Israel and Washington.
According to reports in the Iranian press at the time, members of the hard-line student Basij group in Hamadan province, where the shrine is located, released a statement threatening to tear down the building and replace it with a Paleostinian consulate, amid anger over the Trump administration’s peace plan released last month.
"Since February, members of the Iranian Basij militia have once again threatened to raze the tomb of historic Jewish heroes Mordechai and Queen Esther. It appears that these domestic faceless myrmidons attempted to carry out this outrageous act of desecration with this premeditated attack," Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said in its Friday statement.
According to the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities, a US-based group which pushes for religious freedom in Iran, reports in February had included Iranian authorities calling for the site to be torn down, though the veracity of this could not be verified.
Ali Malmir, the head of Hamadan’s tourism office, told the regime’s ISNA news outlet on February 7 that turning the shrine into a consular building would not be possible, noting that the site was protected as a work of historical heritage under Iranian law, and could not fit the needs of a diplomatic office.
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the head of the Hamadan Basij told the outlet that Iranian officials should see defending Paleostinian rights as a more important cultural heritage.
The building is believed to hold the tombs of Esther and Mordechai, the heroes of the Jewish Purim story, in which they frustrate plans by a Persian viceroy to destroy the Jewish community there.
While the site is protected under Iranian law, officials in 2011 reportedly downgraded its status, weeks after a protest was held at the site in response to unfounded claims that Israel was threatening to tear down the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. 
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