OY VAY"MY SON THE DICTATOR" THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN IS JEWISH!!!!!!

I wasn't really sure we could top last week's list of disclosures about celebrities and politicians. To recap: David Letterman is a philanderer. John Edwards is an (alleged) serial philanderer. And if there were any remaining doubts, Roman Polanksi really is a child rapist. But here's one secret I'm quite certain none of us saw coming: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is...wait for it...Jewish.

Wow.

This guy has had one helluva summer: Electoral fraud. Torture allegations. Oh, yes and that pesky little nuclear facility he's been building. Now it turns out he's Jewish to boot? Say it ain't so, Mahmoud.

But apparently it is. According to a story that broke over the weekend in London's Daily Telegraph, a photograph of the President holding up his national identity card during the recent Iranian elections provides evidence that he is Jewish.

That document reveals that his original last name - Sabourjian - is a well-known Jewish surname in Iran, one that even connotes that his family was once observant. A note scribbled on the card also shows that his parents changed their last name to "Ahmadinejad" after they converted to Islam when he was born. Although Ahmadinejad has never denied that his name was changed, he has never offered an explanation.

To be fair, he's not the first famous person to be "discovered" to be Jewish. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is probably the most prominent American in recent times. (If you haven't read Michael Kinsley's send-up of this phenomenon in Slate, it's a must.)By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat
Published: 7:30AM BST 03 Oct 2009

Ahmadinejad showing papers during election. It shows that his family's previous name was Jewish A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.


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Funny, you don't look Jewish? The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.

I AM NOW WATCHIN THE HISTORY CHANNEL.....ALL ABOUT UFOS' THERE WAS A CONFERENCE WITH ALL FAMOUS PEOPLE...SENATORS, ARMY AND AIRFORCE BIG WIGS,.....THERE HAS BEEN A COVER UP BECAUSE THERE ARE UFOS....THERE IS PROOF.....AND THE CIA WANTS TO KEEP THE PEOPLE CALM....ONE GOOD THING...THEY ARE PROBABLY MORE ADVANCED AND NOT ARLIKE..BECUASE WHEN ONE OF THEIR SMALLER CRAFTS WAS FIRED ON...THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE IRANIAN FIGHTER JET THAT FIRED UPON IT..WAS THAT THEY LOST CONTROL ,UNTIL THEY TURNED AROUND AND LEFT......WHEN THEY REGAINED CONTROL.....WHICH MEANS, THEY AVOID CONFRONTATION WITH JUST DISABLING, NOT KILLING....