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    <description>Karmel Melamed is an award-winning journalist and commentator in Southern California covering Iran, Iranian Americans and Middle East affairs.</description>
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      <title>Skirball launches ‘long-term, collaborative effort’ with Iranian Jewish nonprofit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We have built rich and full lives here as part of the Los Angeles community, and we are forever grateful to the city and to the United States for opening its arms and welcoming us so warmly,” Sharon Nazarian told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>Iranian Americans support protesters in Iran seeking regime change</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Obama was silent during the 2009 protests, and Biden was silent during the 2022 protests,” the publisher of a Persian outlet in Los Angeles told JNS. “President Trump’s support to our people protesting today gives them tremendous confidence.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:15:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Southern California evangelical Latinos launch new pro-Israel group</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We in the Jewish community need to show our appreciation to our Christian friends, who are standing with us and Israel,” Rabbi Ruben Malekan told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>Jews arrested in Iran released after round-up by regime security forces, sources say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Several Jewish friends inside Iran sent me messages on Instagram and WhatsApp saying they were unharmed but very frightened of the regime’s authorities,” the journalist Rosa Parto told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>Jewish community in Iran keeps low profile during war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many Jews have recently fled Tehran for quieter areas north of the city during the conflict.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranian Americans support Israeli strikes on regime’s nuclear sites, IRGC leaders</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The people of Iran are truly happy and grateful to Israel for taking out the murderous goons of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” an Iranian American activist told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 03:50:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranian Jewish community ‘totally shocked’ by Arvin Ghahramani’s execution</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jewish in Iran “are honestly furious at their leadership for ignoring Arvin’s case while he was rotting in jail for two years,” the Persian-language journalist who was among those to break the story told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranian-American voters remain divided on Harris and Trump, community leaders say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many expats favor the former president, saying they see him as harsher on the Islamic regime, while others plan to vote for the current vice president.]]></description>
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      <title>Jews in Iran ‘shocked and angered’ about looming execution of young Jew</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Iranian authorities often subject Jewish citizens to different standards when it comes to determining judgments in cases of this nature,” wrote Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 20:00:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Exiled Iranian prince: ‘There are those who believe in death’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The “eye of the octopus,” the Islamic regime in Iran, must be addressed, Reza Pahlavi told JNS in an exclusive, far-ranging interview.]]></description>
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