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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.
The appointment of AMIA-bombing suspects Mohsen Rezaei and Ahmad Vahidi to high positions in Raisi’s government has faced zero criticism from European, American and U.S.-Jewish leaders.
“This regime will soon collapse, and we, the patriots of Iran, have a responsibility to reach out to Israel,” said Khosrow Beitollahi, one of the hundreds of Iranian non-Jewish activists in the United States who are openly supporting Israel.
We have a duty to speak with one voice for freedom and in support of those innocents in the Islamic Republic who want to liberate their country from a repressive regime.
Whether via social-media messages or by demonstrating alongside pro-Israel supporters in the United States and Canada, non-Jewish Iranians have expressed support for peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Peace treaties are just a first step between Israel and its Arab neighbors—key to maintaining that peace will be educating the Arabs about the 850,000 Jewish refugees from the Islamic countries.
The beloved leader of Iran’s Jewish community was executed in 1979 by the newly established Islamic regime for no purpose other than to instill terror in the hearts of other Jews. His killing is as relevant today as it was 41 years ago.
Following Tehran’s numerous vile attempts to blame Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic, American Jewry must finally wake up and denounce this regime’s Jew-hatred.
While the Iranian regime have tried for 40 years to erase Solaiman Haiim’s name and legacy because of his Jewish faith, Iranian American scholars say his dictionaries transformed the lives of thousands.