Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi, the Jewish representative in Iran’s parliament, was summoned by Iran’s security agencies over Jewish Iranians liking and commenting on Zionist and Israeli content on social media, he confirmed in an open letter published on his personal Telegram that was addressed to Iran’s Jewish community.
"Unfortunately, in the past two weeks, I was summoned to these agencies because some fellow Jews posted comments and liked false content, causing misunderstandings among the country’s intelligence agencies," he wrote.
He then called on members of Iran’s Jewish community to refrain from leaving any comments or social media activity, such as likes, that would "cause suspicion."
"You are requested, if you have published any unusual, sensitive, or misconstruable comments or likes in cyberspace, to delete them as soon as possible," he said in the letter.
Najafabadi: Iranian Jews should 'unfollow the IDF'
"If you are a member of channels associated with the Zionist regime, including Israel in Persian or the IDF and other hostile pages and channels, you must unfollow them immediately," Najafabadi warned.
"If you do not delete comments or likes or continue to subscribe to the aforementioned channels, then legal activity may arise, and it will become more difficult to resolve the issue in the future," he added.
Najafabadi affirms Jewish-Iranian's support for regime amid Israel-Iran war
In June, amid the height of Israeli strikes on Iran and Iranian ballistic missile launches toward Israel as part of the Israel-Iran war, Najafabadi affirmed that the country’s roughly 8,000 Jews back the Islamic Republic’s leadership.
"We stand ready to defend the homeland under the supreme leader’s command" should the fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire collapse, Najafabadi said, echoing hard-line talking points.
Speaking at the time to the military-linked Defapress, Najafabadi praised what he called Iran’s "decisive response" during the 12 days of missile and cyberattack exchanges between Israel and Iran.
Similarly, Iran’s Jewish leadership publicly pledged full allegiance to the Islamic Republic, with Chief Rabbi Yehuda Gerami declaring that the country’s Jews "stand in a single front in defense of our homeland," according to reports in the state-aligned news agencies ISNA and Tabnak.
Speaking at a gathering of Tehran’s Jewish community on June 26, convened after Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian territory, Gerami said Jews in Iran "have shared the joys and sorrows of this nation for centuries" and view the country as "indivisible from our own identity."
Any shedding of innocent blood, he added, was "an unforgivable sin in our scripture," and he condemned "ideologies that falsely claim to represent Judaism while promoting racism and expansionism."
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.