It is possible to imagine , though , that Iran 's intermittently persecuted Jews , living today under a president , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , who denies the historical truth of the European Holocaust while threatening a new Middle Eastern one , might see Purim not as a story of tragedy averted but as one of tragedy foretold .
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