 Probably due to his change of policy, Yazdegerd appointed Mihr Narseh of the Suren family as his minister ("wuzurg framadar").This brief persecution did not mar Yazdegerd I's representation in Christian sources, some of which justified his actions.The Jews of Iran were treated so generously and respectfully by Yazdegerd I that their exilarch called him the new Cyrus the Great, who liberated the Jews from captivity in Babylon.