Chronology of the exodus
of
יהודים YEHUDIM
from the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This chronology distinguishes evidence of departure from evidence of the legal and political environment confronting the community. A statute hostile to ציונות ẒIYONUT can narrow contact, travel and public expression without proving that every person who left did so because of that statute.

2020-05-18Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed

legislative adoption

2020-05-18; legislative adoption: The Islamic Republic of Iran adopted a sixteen-article antizionist statute restricting contact, travel, institutional participation, technology, economic assistance and political or media support.1

2025-06-16Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed

Mehr publication

2025-06-16; Mehr publication: Mehr published enforcement categories for criminalizing ציונות ẒIYONUT that included favorable online content and failure to report specified conduct. The page does not identify the issuing authority or establish a completed prosecution.2

Footnotes

  1. Islamic Consultative Assembly, Law Countering the Hostile Actions, Articles 1-16
  2. Mehr, enforcement categories announcement,