
Speaking at a cultural event in Ramat Gan on Saturday, Deputy  Negev and Galilee Development Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud) said that an Iranian  nuclear scientist had broken ranks with the Islamic regime and requested  political asylum in Israel. 
While  Kara refused to reveal the identity of the scientist, he did say that the  Iranian national was currently awaiting a decision on the matter in a “friendly  country.”
Kara added that the scientist had passed his message to Israeli  sources through a Jewish woman of Iranian descent, and that he would do all he  could to advance the request.
“I will support any source with the goal of  removing the strategic and nuclear threat posed to Israel and posed to the  enlightened, democratic world [by Iran],” Kara said during Saturday’s event