Letter from Los Angeles: Under cover of pandemic, they threw my aunt off a roof
There was a typhus pandemic, concurrent with an outbreak of cholera and widespread famine. There were bread riots everywhere, the country was under foreign occupation and overrun by refugees from other war-torn countries. This was 78 years ago in Tehran during the Second World War. Food, heating oil, and other essentials were rationed. Bakers were mixing sawdust with flour and selling it as bread. Peddlers ate their pack animals’ meat, their innards, bones. They boiled the skin, hair and all, and ate that too.
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Is the Iranian government serving up half-truths to visiting foreign journalists? Gina Nahai warns that the more things seem to change, the more the mullahs stay the same.
How Iranian Jews Shaped Modern Los Angeles
Gina Nahai explains how a massive influx of Iranian Jews 35 years ago changed Los Angeles forever — and made the Ashkenazi establishment anything but happy.