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Thu Mar 10, 2022, 02:54 PM Mar 2022

(Jewish Group) Iranian media slanders Zelensky with antisemitic article

Iran’s Fars News, which is a pro-government media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ran a long article bashing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and using antisemitic tropes.

In the March 10 article that appears on its website's homepage, Zelensky is accused of being a hedonist who seeks to “gain power and pleasure, using any kind of moral and financial corruption being committed.” It accuses him of having made obscene works in his film career and supporting “marijuana, gambling and prostitution.”

The article openly refers to him as a Jew with “deep ties to Jewish officials and the rich, such as George Soros.” It accuses him of being a Zionist, saying that “Zionist behavior” is duplicitous and that Israel had tossed Ukraine aside “like a handkerchief.”

The article describes Zelensky’s relationship with the Trump administration, arguing that the previous American president preferred amicable relations with Russia and that his allies worked against Ukraine and its ambassador in Washington. This “coincided with the beginning of the first days of Zelensky's presidency,” the article claims.

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