Karmel Melamed is an award-winning Iranian Jewish journalist, activist and attorney based in Southern California.
Karmel Melamed
By Karmel Melamed
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News L.A. police release photo of suspect in murder of Iranian Jewish businessman
Following last month’s violent stabbing that left a 62-year-old Iranian Jewish businessman dead in his downtown Los Angeles jewelry store, Los Angeles police have recently released photos and information about the potential suspect in the case. According to a brief report from the Los Angeles police department, the suspect was inside the victim’s store for…
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News Stabbing of Jewelry District businessman shakes L.A.’s Iranian Jewish community
Southern California’s Iranian Jewish community has been in mourning following the violent stabbing death of an Iranian Jewish businessman on Nov. 3 at his jewelry business in downtown Los Angeles. According to a brief report from the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, 62-year-old Eshagh Natanzadeh of Beverly Hills died after receiving multiple sharp force injuries…
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News In L.A.’s Persian Jewish community, not everyone’s for Trump
While national polls show a large majority of American Jews support former Vice President Joe Biden, Iranian Jewish activists in Southern California say their community largely supports President Donald Trump in his re-election bid. Yet with the election days — hours — away, even that seemingly solid block shows signs of division. “It’s a difficult…
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Community Iran’s regime executed my Jewish relative 40 years ago
My father still wakes up in the middle of the night shouting loudly from nightmares about retrieving the bloody body of my relative, an innocent 30-year-old Jewish businessman who was executed by the Ayatollah Khomeini regime in Iran four decades ago. Forty years ago this week, on July 31, 1980, my family was devastated and…
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News Family of Jewish businessman executed by the Iranian regime speaks out, 40 years later
On June 5, 1980, Hilda Hay walked into the morgue of Tehran’s Jewish cemetery and saw the badly beaten and bloody corpse of her husband, Albert Danialpour, lying on the table. “Overnight I became a young widow. My young children, who were ages five, seven and nine, lost their father, and we became poor when…
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Opinion It’s the anniversary of Iran’s murder of a Jewish businessman. The Jewish community must break its silence.
In 1967, when the Islamic clerics of Tehran were in the middle of constructing their new and grand Hossieneh Ershad mosque in the heart of the city, their funds for the project dried up. They turned to individual Muslim business leaders and observant Islamic individuals for financial help to complete the grand mosque after work…
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Community Why Aren’t American Jews Supporting Iranian Protestors?
Nearly two-and-a-half years ago, a large segment of Jewish leaders and activists across the United States came out in strong support of the Iran deal. They believed the deal would help improve the lives of the people of Iran who were suffering economically, and help bring about reform in Iran for average Iranians. As a…
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Community Iran’s Regime Violently Expelled Its Jews. Why Are American Jews Giving Them A Pass?
President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Deal on May 8. The following day marked a very painful anniversary for many Iranian Jews worldwide: 39 years since the unjust execution of our community leader Habib Elghanian at the hands of the current Iranian regime and Ayatollah Khomeini. While many American Jews may not…
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