Siyamak More Sedgh

Siyamak More Sedgh (Given name also transliterated as Siamak, Merh Sedgh, is a Jewish Iranian politician and doctor who was the holder of the Iranian Parliament's reserved seat for the Jewish minority from 2008 to 2020, and is also the chairman of the Jewish charitable institution Dr.) Sapir Hospital and Charity Center. He has been referred to as Iran's "No. 1 Jew." In 1983, he was accepted by the Shiraz School of Medicine. In a 2010 interview with Russia Today, More Sedgh stated that he had volunteered in the war for twelve months, but in a 2013 interview with CNN, he stated he had volunteered for "more than eighty months".

In 1990, More Sedgh received a Doctor of Medicine degree in General Surgery, summa cum laude. Noting this fact in a 2017 interview with Deutsche Welle, More Sedgh stated that his "closest friends" are Muslim.

While at Sanandaj, More Sedgh served as the hazzan or cantor at the local synagogue. In 2002, he married Tina Rabie-Zadeh.

+ Electoral history of Siyamak More Sedgh Election Votes cast Votes for More Sedgh Percentage 2008 2,748 2,374 86.39% 2012 3,934 3,240 82.36% 2016 3,397 2,449 72.09%

From 2016 to 2020, his parliamentary committee was the Health and Medicare Committee. He was also a member of the parliamentary Friendship Groups for Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. According to 7Dorim, he believes that all current problems that Jews face in Iran can be solved without deviating from the current Islamist constitution. In 2007, he referred to reports of the aliyah of forty Iranian Jews to Israel as an unconfirmed "misinformation campaign." In 2008, his first year in the legislature, he refused to celebrate Israel's sixtieth anniversary and stated that Israel showed "anti-human behavior" towards Palestinians in Gaza. During the 2014 Gaza War, More Sedgh compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the policies of the Nazis and of Saddam Hussein and dubbed the country the "Zionist regime". When asked about Israel's right to exist, he stated that "every country that goes in a human rights behavior has the right to exist." As of 2018, following American president Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the deal, he opposes any dialogue with the Trump administration. More Sedgh also criticized Poland for co-hosting (with the United States) the February 2019 Warsaw Conference targeting Iran, saying that the country had "the most anti-Semitic government in the world" which was "implementing some laws that deny [the] Holocaust". He also visited Syria and met former president of Syria Bashar al-Assad.

In 2016 Israel Radio released a tape of More Sedgh being interviewed by a French-Israeli reporter. In the tape, he said a war between Iran and Israel would be "suicide" for Iran, and he expressed doubt the Iranian government would seriously consider going to war. After the tapes were released, More Sedgh denied that the interview occurred, accusing it of fabrication. In an interview with Fars News Agency he said he would never have taken part in such an interview and that he refuses to respond to "phone calls and questions from the Zionist media because they are not the creatures that we want to answer."

Controversies More Sedgh has been criticized for promoting Iranian propaganda and whitewashing the situation of Iranian Jewry. Iranian-American journalist Karmel Melamed characterized him as a prop for the Government of Iran, which used him whenever they were accused of antisemitism,