Editing Antisemitism in Islam (section)

=====Iran=====
{{Main|History of the Jews in Iran}}
{{Further|Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran}}
Although Iran was officially neutral during the Second World War, [[Reza Shah]] sympathized with Nazi Germany, making the Jewish community fearful of possible persecutions.<ref name="sanasarian2">Sanasarian (2000), p. 46.</ref> Although these fears did not materialise, anti-Jewish articles were published in the Iranian media. Following the [[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran]] in 1941, [[Reza Shah]] was deposed and replaced by his son [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]].

However, [[Kaveh Farrokh]] argues that there is a misconception that antisemitism was widespread in [[Iran]] with Reza Shah in power.<ref name=Farrokh>{{cite book|last=Farrokh|first=Kaveh|title=Iran at War|year=2011|publisher=Oxford: Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1-84603-491-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUHhTPdJ6yIC}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> After the [[Fall of France]] during the time that [[Reza Shah]] was still regent, the head of the Iranian legation in [[Paris]], [[Abdol Hossein Sardari]], used his influence with Nazi contacts to gain exemptions from Nazi race laws for an estimated 2000 [[Iranian Jews]] living in Paris at the time. The legation also issued Iranian travel documents for the Iranian Jews and their non-Iranian family members to facilitate travel through Nazi occupied Europe to safety.<ref name=BBC_Iranian_Schindler>{{cite news|last=Wheeler|first=Brian|title=The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis|year=2012|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16190541}}</ref>