Family of executed Iranian Jewish businessman still seeks justice, 40 years later

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The happy life Mansour Gedooshim and his family enjoyed came to a sudden end in 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime took power in Iran following the country's Islamic revolution.
50% : The Jewish community of Iran, which was once 80,000 strong in 1979, now numbers between 5,000 to 8,000, he said.
43% : Nikbakht said the Gedooshim family and other Iranian families whose loved ones were unlawfully executed by the Iranian regime may not today receive their day in court while the current Islamic regime is in power in Iran, but may eventually get some sort of compensation in the future from an outside tribunal.
40% : "My message to the American Jewish community is do not trust this Islamic regime in Iran," said Gedooshim.
40% : Frank Nikbakht, an Iranian Jewish activist who heads the L.A.-based Committee For Minority Rights in Iran, said Jews in Iran were frequently arrested and imprisoned after the 1979 revolution by the Khomeini regime in order to successfully scare Jews into fleeing the country and leaving behind their wealth.
38% : A short while later she said she fled Iran and started her new life in Southern California where her children lived.
38% : The Jews in Iran continue to live in constant fear for their security amid threats from Islamic terrorist factions.
37% : With the anniversary of her husband's killing on September 20, Gedooshim said she decided to share the story of her husband's arrest and execution with American Jews in hopes of raising awareness of the antisemitic and dangerous nature of the Iranian regime with which the current Biden administration is negotiating a nuclear deal.
36% : "They thought I was one of those scared Jews who would run away from Iran after they killed my husband for no reason," Gedooshim's wife said.
36% : Some guards at the court eventually persuaded Gedooshim's wife to leave Iran because they said the commotion she was causing had irritated the regime's officials who would not hesitate to also execute her.
35% : Additionally, she said she remained in Iran for 10 years after her husband's death and regularly visited the regime's revolutionary court demanding to get paid for her husband's wrongful killing.
29% : "We left Iran with only a suitcase of clothes and have been forced to live with the trauma of that horrific experience for a lifetime".
26% : "I'm an old woman now but my only dying wish is to see the day this Islamic regime in Iran is removed from the face of this earth for this nightmare it has unleashed on my family,' she said.

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