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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 94: "I met the Ayatollah when I lived in Iran. He asked me to write his memoirs. I'm Jewish". Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Description: You’ve never heard a story like this!
Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She was born and raised in France and also lived in Yemen and Iran.
While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say.
But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply political and ideological regi...