Iranian president wishes Jews happy new year

New Iranian President Hassan Rowhani
wished Jews a happy Jewish new year, or
Rosh Hashanah, in a message on his Twitter
feed.“As the sun is about to set here in
Tehran I wish all Jews, especially Iranian
Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah,” the
English-language tweet said.
The message signals a change of tone in
Tehran from a leader who took over a
month ago from hard-line former president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
During his time in office, Ahmadinejad
referred to the Holocaust as a “myth.”
Earlier on Wednesday Rowhani urged Iran’s
conservative clerics in the Assembly of
Experts to change their “narrow-minded”
approach to society in a world that has
become interconnected through satellite
television and the internet.(dpa/NAN)