TEHRAN – The Society of Iranian Jews here Saturday issued a statement rejecting financial incentives offered by the Zionist regime to immigrate to the occupied Palestine.

The incentives - ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families - were offered in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community, the British daily Guardian reported. However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale. "The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradable for any amount of money," the society said in the statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews." The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel. Iran’s Jewish MP Morris Motamed has said such offers are “insulting” and it suggests that the Iranian Jews would be convinced to immigrate for money. Iranian Jews have always been free to immigrate, but they have mostly chosen the U.S. and not Israel, he said. Iran has the highest Jewish population in the Middle East after Israel