A trained surgeon, he has referred to his work as a doctor at Dr. Sapir Hospital as his "first passion"[9] and his "duty as a human being".
More Sedgh was born in Shiraz in 1965 to a prominent family who had led the local Jewish community since the Safavid era.
[12] In 1990, More Sedgh received a Doctor of Medicine degree in General Surgery, summa cum laude.
Although he has admitted that balancing the two occupations has been difficult, he said in a 2018 interview with Al Jazeera English that:[9] Going to the parliament for me is a duty for my country and the Iranian Jews.
[9] Noting this fact in a 2017 interview with Deutsche Welle, More Sedgh stated that his "closest friends" are Muslim.
[2][5] More Sedgh's wife immigrated to the United States in the late 1990s; he chose to remain in Iran because he did not think he could live outside his native Iranian culture.
[16] 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.
[2][12][13][14] In a 2013 interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, More Sedgh said: Of course, being a Jewish minority in a religious country have some problems.
[12] 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 improving Jewish lives.
[18] In 2007, he referred to reports of the aliyah of forty Iranian Jews to Israel as an unconfirmed "misinformation campaign.
[19] 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".
[18] 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.
[9] 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.
"[21] 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".