Afghanistan: Islamic Republic of Iran organizes exhibit calling for Israel’s ‘nuclear extinction’

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“Israel’s ‘nuclear extinction’ called for at Iranian exhibit in Afghanistan,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, April 29, 2023:

The Islamic Republic of Iran organized an exhibition in Afghanistan’s third-largest city of Herat that advocated the “nuclear extinction” of Israel in April as part of the month-long Al-Quds Day celebrations.

“This exhibition is an example of the Iranian regime’s exporting of its antisemitic ideology. There is a permissive environment in Afghanistan for the Iranian system to do so now, especially with the Taliban in charge, and there are natural linkages to the Hazara community, which have a significant presence in Herat,” Jason Brodsky, policy director for the US-based United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told The Jerusalem Post.

“These Cultural Centers are not spreading the views of the Iranian people, but of the Islamic Republic, and it is part of a drive for recruitment, incitement, and influence.“

The Hazara are a largely a Shi’ite Muslim ethnic group. Nearly all of Iran’s over 87 million Muslims are Shi’ite.

MEMRI wrote that Al-Quds Day “is celebrated generally on the last Friday of Ramadan, which this year was on April 21, to emphasize the call for the liberation of Jerusalem. However, Al-Quds Day was marked this year on both April 14 and April 21, the former perhaps in expectation that it might have been the last Friday of Ramadan. In South Asian countries, Eid Al-Fitr was celebrated on April 21 and April 22, 2023.”

Tufail Ahmad, a Senior Fellow for the MEMRI Islamism and Counter-Radicalization Initiative, published a report on the “upsurge of anti-Israel events, antisemitism, and statements in South Asia, especially in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pakistan-controlled Azad Jammu & Kashmir and in Indian Kashmir and other cities of India, during the holy month of Ramadan, starting March 23, 2023.”

Watan24.com reported that in the province of Herat, Shi’ite leaders celebrated Al-Quds Day on April 14. Allama Hojatoleslam Ahmadi, the head of Herat’s Shia Ulema Council, delivered a diatribe in to people in Herat city: “Israel will not continue as a state, this being a divine promise,” according to a Dari-language news website….