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Karmel Melamed

Karmel Melamed is an award-winning journalist and commentator in Southern California covering Iran, Iranian Americans and Middle East affairs.

“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.
“[His] satisfaction in life, even to the last hours of his life, was to community work. He did it for what he believed was a noble cause,” said George Haroonian, a Los Angeles-based Iranian Jewish activist.
As a people who for millennia have faced unspeakable violence, hatred, injustice, pogroms and even genocide, we have always spoken out in support of those who were downtrodden and oppressed.
“We have lived with Islamists in Iran and know their psychology, their politics and the way they operate. Appeasing them will haunt you, and they consider these moves as temporary and a sign of weakness,” says George Haroonian, a Los Angeles-based Iranian Jewish activist.
Various Persian-language satellite news-media outlets in the United States and Europe had been giving extensive coverage his actions.
Commemorating the fact that their ancestors played a role in the elimination of European Jewry is a meaningless gesture unless it is connected to fighting like hell for live Jews—and that means confronting Iran.
Abdollah Shahbazi has published countless Jewish conspiracy and anti- Baha’i’ articles and books in the Persian language for more than three decades, said Behnam Golipour, an Iranian journalist based in the Czech Republic.
Shame on the editors for allowing their publication to be utilized for the benefit of the ayatollah regime’s propaganda machine and for failing to disclose the true anti-Semitic nature of the Iranian regime! They owe their readers and Iranian Jews worldwide an apology.
While there have been ramifications for those who attended it, they also say it was a productive first step for Iraqis to consider the prospects of peace with Israelis.