Peres meets with Iranian peace activist

Former president Shimon Peres meets at the Peres Center of Peace with Maryam Faghih Imani, chairwoman and founder of an organization promoting democracy and tolerance in the Middle East, equality for women and entrepreneurship by people from different countries.

Peres told Imani that her work for peace necessitates “great courage” and said she was a model to the fact that peace can come from the people and not from the leaders of countries.

The Jewish and Iranian peoples have a shared history, he said, emphasizing that Israelis “have nothing against the Iranian people.”

There are many options to bring the people closer despite the hate disseminated by the Iranian regime, Peres said.