The lone Jewish member of Iran's parliament on Monday

likened Israel's bombing

of Gaza to the actions of

Nazi Germany,

“The Zionist regime's crimes are reminiscent of the

actions taken by the German

Nazis during the first

[sic] and second World Wars,” Siamak Marreh Sedq

told Fars.

He also compared Israel's Operation

Protective Edge to Saddam Hussein's predations

upon the Shi'ites of Iran and Iraq, a red flag in the

Islamic republic.

Sedq, a 50-year-old physician, fills the

parliamentary seat reserved for Jews, as a

religious minority, going back over a century.

He replaced long-time Jewish MP

Maurice Motamed in 2008, and seems even

more loyal to the Iranian line on Israel

and anti-Semitism than his predecessor.

Motamed publicly criticized former President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial,

while Sedq is not known for having ever

broken ranks with the regime.

In a 2010 interview with Russia Today, he

painted life for Iranian Jews in especially

rosy colors: “Jews are safe in Iran. That’s true.

Nobody needs guards. There has never

been a single instance of anti-Semitism in

Iranian society. This phenomenon belongs

to the European, Christian world. There is no

anti-Semitic sentiment in Iran. We have

no attacks on synagogues or cemeteries as

happens in Paris."