Siyamak More Sedgh

Although Dr. Sapir Hospital is located in a traditionally Jewish quarter of Tehran, most Jewish people have since left and the vast majority of both patients and staff are Muslims. Noting this fact in a 2017 interview with Deutsche Welle, More Sedgh stated that his "closest friends" are Muslim.

More Sedgh has pointed to changes in compensation payments for deaths, which used to be different for Muslims and non-Muslims but have since become equal, as an example of an improvement in Jewish lives. In the 2017 Deutsche Welle interview, he counted the fact that Jewish children enrolled in public schools were now allowed to stay home on Saturday, the Sabbath, as "one of our [Jewish community's] biggest successes of the past years". He also obtained a 50% increase in the budget allotted to the activities of religious minorities. More Sedgh is making efforts to allow Jews to be enrolled as officers in the army and hopes that Jews will one day be allowed to serve as judges and in the Cabinet of Iran.

From 2016 to 2020, his parliamentary committee was the Health and Medicare Committee. He was also a member of the parliamentary Friendship Groups for Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. More Sedgh's political stances diverge only narrowly from established Iranian state policies.

In 2016 Israel Radio released a tape of More Sedgh being interviewed by a French-Israeli reporter. In the tape, he said a war between Iran and Israel would be "suicide" for Iran and he expressed doubt the Iranian government would seriously consider going to war. After the tapes were released, More Sedgh denied that the interview took place, accusing it of being a fabrication. In an interview with Fars News Agency he said he would never have taken part in such an interview and that he refuses to respond to "phone calls and questions from the Zionist media because they are not the creatures that we want to answer."

In his political capacity, More Sedgh has made efforts to improve the position of Jews in Iranian law and society, such as by allowing Jewish children in public schools to not go to school on Saturdays. He supports gradual reforms within the current Islamist framework. In foreign policy, he has repeatedly criticized Israel, which he has dubbed the "Zionist regime". He supported the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. A trained surgeon, he has referred to his work as a doctor at Dr. Sapir Hospital as his "first passion" and his "duty as a human being".

More Sedgh supported the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, noting that "the lifting of sanctions... will also positively affect the lives of Jews in Iran." As of 2018, following American president Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the deal, he opposes any dialogue with the Trump administration. In 2019, he stated that Trump had "employed the most anti-Semitic people in the world in a bid to pursue his anti-Iran objectives." More Sedgh also criticized Poland for co-hosting (with the United States) the February 2019 Warsaw Conference targeting Iran, saying that the country had "the most anti-Semitic government in the world" which was "implementing some laws that deny [the] Holocaust".

According to 7Dorim, a website discussing Jewish culture in Iran, More Sedgh "has complained on many occasions against the biased position of the Iranian TV and Radio... which had broadcast some negative propaganda and insulting programs" with regards to Jews. In several interviews with foreign media, he has stated that the situation for Jews in Iran is not perfect but improving. In a 2013 interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, More Sedgh said:

In 2013, More Sedgh was one of only two Members of Parliament to accompany President Hassan Rouhani's first address to the United Nations, as part of what has been dubbed a "charm offensive" to improve Iran's global image following the various controversies of previous president Ahmadinejad.

In the 2008 Iranian legislative election, More Sedgh was elected to the reserved seat for Jews in the Iranian Parliament. He successfully defended his seat in the next two elections. In the 2020 legislative election, he was not re-elected.

More Sedgh has repeatedly criticized Israel. In 2007, he referred to reports of the aliyah of forty Iranian Jews to Israel as an unconfirmed "misinformation campaign." In 2008, his first year in the legislature, he refused to celebrate Israel's sixtieth anniversary and stated that Israel showed "anti-human behavior" towards Palestinians in Gaza. During the 2014 Gaza War, More Sedgh compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the policies of the Nazis and of Saddam Hussein and dubbed the country the "Zionist regime". Most recently, on the 2020 International Quds Day, More Sedgh stated that "the Zionist regime seeks to abuse the Jewish religion and has no adherence to the principles of this religion" and suggested that "the Jews of the world [should] rise up against a disaster like Zionism and declare their disgust," just as Muslims express their disgust for "people like bin Laden." When asked about Israel's right to exist, he stated that "every country that goes in a human rights behavior has the right to exist."

While at Sanandaj, More Sedgh served as the hazzan or cantor at the local synagogue. In 2006, he became the chairman of the Tehran Jewish Committee, a post which he held until deciding to run for Parliament in 2008. Since 2009, he has also been the editor-in-chief of Ofogh-e Binah, a monthly newspaper published by the committee.

In 1990, More Sedgh received a Doctor of Medicine degree in General Surgery, summa cum laude. He worked as a general surgical assistant at Namazi Hospital after graduation, and was employed beginning in 1995 as an assistant professor at the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in the western city of Sanandaj. He was put in charge of Kurdistan's emergency center in 2000 before moving to the capital of Tehran in 2002, to serve as the chairman of the Jewish charitable institution Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center. More Sedgh continues to direct the hospital concurrently with his political work. Although he has admitted that balancing the two occupations has been difficult, he said in a 2018 interview with Al Jazeera English that:

More Sedgh's wife immigrated to the United States in the late 1990s, but he chose to remain in Iran because he did not think he could live outside his native Iranian culture. In 2002, he married Tina Rabie-Zadeh.

Siyamak More Sedgh (Persian: سیامک مره‌صدق, romanized: Siyāmak More-Sedq; born 1965) is a Jewish Iranian politician and doctor who was the holder of the Iranian Parliament's reserved seat for the Jewish minority from 2008 to 2020, and is also the chairman of the Jewish charitable institution Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center. He has been referred to as Iran's "No. 1 Jew."

More Sedgh was born in Shiraz in 1965 to a prominent family who had led the local Jewish community since the Safavid era. In 1983, he was accepted by the Shiraz School of Medicine. During the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 to 1988, he served as a first aid doctor. In a 2010 interview with Russia Today, More Sedgh stated that he had volunteered in the war for twelve months, but in a 2013 interview with CNN, he stated he had volunteered for "more than eighty months".