“Islamic Republic (since 1979)
During the Iranian revolution, many Iranian Jews joined the revolutionaries in order to lose their Jewish identity and be part of the utopia that the revolution promised.[79][80]
In summer of 1978, 7000 Jews protested against the Shah in Ashura protests. Other estimates puts the Jewish participants in the protests as high as 12000. Almost all the religious leaders of the Jewish community such as Yedidia Shofet, Uriel Davidi, David Shofet, Yosef Hamadani Cohen, Rabbi Baalnes, and Rabbi Yadegaran participated in the protests. Other non religious leaders of the Persian Jewish community such as Aziz Daneshrad, Haroun Yashayaei, Yaghoub Barkhordar, Hoshang Melamed, Manuchehr Eliasi and Farangis Hasidim also participated in the protests.[81]
Leaders of the Jewish community such as Yosef Hamadani Cohen and Yedidia Shofet were instrumental in managing the collaborations between the Jews and the revolutionaries.[82]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iran
“Even though the new revolutionary government promoted heated anti-Israeli sentiments among its followers, many commercial ties were still maintained even after the revolution. After the revolution, selling Iranian oil was extremely difficult due to sanctions. Marc Rich, an Israeli-Swiss businessman, sent his Glencore executives to Tehran and established major commercial ties with the new government. Rich was the only businessman able to export Iranian oil from 1979 to 1995.”
I imagine many of the Jewish leaders were as much Leftist as they are Jewish. The Left joined the “coalition” against the Shah, expecting to be part of any new government, only to find, graduallly and then quickly, over time that the Komeini gang had other plans and the “grand” coaltion had been a sham all along. Koemeini never had any plans or desires to share power with anyone, Leftists, rigtists, democratic moderates and Liberals - no one.
The shame is the Jewish leaders in Iran cannot even now admit their orginal error of 1979, in spite of the years of the Mullahs proclaiming to the world they will destroy Israel. Israelis ought to consider ending the “right of return” to Jews still in Iran, giving a window of time before it takes affect.