YNET NEWS: He's denied the Holocaust a number of times, and continues to threaten Israel, but the majority of Iran's 25,000 Jews are still expected to support the current president in Friday's elections. 'They want to be on the winning side,' experts explain
Voting stations throughout Iran will open Friday morning, and 46 million citizens will be casting their votes for their next president.
Several thousand of these eligible voters belong to the Jewish community within the Islamic State, and, contrary to what some may believe, experts estimate that most of these Jews will actually be casting a ballot with current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's name on it.
This, is spite of the fact that he has denied the Holocaust on a number of occasions, threatened the destruction of Israel and continues to move forward with his nuclear ambitions.
There are currently some 25,000 Jews living in Iran, and most of the eligible voters from this community are expected to show up and vote in the country's elections in which Ahmadinejad will be running against prominent reformist rival Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karoubi and Mohsen Rezai.
"They are leaning towards leaving Ahmadinejad in his post because Mousavi is unpredictable," David Mutai, Spokesman of the Central Organization of Iranian Immigrants in Israel told Ynet. >>> Yael Levy | Wednesday, June 10, 2009
