Subject: LOL, you know the world has gone to hell when Iranian officials take to Twitter to wish Jews a happy new year Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:12 am
A series of tweets by Iranian leaders over the past couple of days has students of diplomatic semantics — a sometimes exact science — wondering whether a mere greeting is an opening to the country’s adversaries.
Both Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, and the new foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, sent Rosh Hashanah greetings via Twitter to Jews celebrating the new year.