Karmel Melamed, at The Blogs

May 8, 2023, 8:05 AM

Iranian Crown Prince’s Visit to Israel: A Healing Process for many Iranian Jews

Last month during the historic first visit of Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and his wife to Israel, I received multiple emotional messages and feedback from my friends in the Iranian Jewish community living in Israel. In their various...

Dec 5, 2022, 10:51 PM

Europe’s verbal support of Iranian protestors is not enough

After nearly three months of millions of Iranians in Iran protesting in every major city and town in that country against the totalitarian rule of the Ayatollahs, many European leaders are finally voicing support for the Iranian protestors. Some...

Mar 28, 2022, 6:02 AM

Younes Nazarian and the Successful Iranian Jews Who Could Have Lifted Up Iran

Iranian Jewish industrialist and philanthropist, Younes Nazarian, photo courtesy of USC.

The U.S. Jewish community and Israel lost a great friend with the death of successful Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist Younes Nazarian who passed away on March 18th. Nazarian not only gave millions of dollars to countless Jewish and...

Nov 15, 2021, 9:37 AM

Merkel failed Israel & Jews when it came to Iranian regime

Out-going German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Israel last month as a part of her fair well tour and received high praise from Israeli officials for supporting Israel during her tenure as the leader of Germany. Merkel also received praise...

Jul 6, 2021, 7:53 AM

Remembering Nosrat Goel: Iranian Jewish martyr

For the past two decades, I have had the special honor of reporting on the news and recent history of my ancient Iranian Jewish community which today is largely based in Southern California. Perhaps their most difficult stories involve...

Jun 24, 2021, 12:45 AM

Mass Killings of Man’s Best Friend By Iranian Regime

Last month while the world’s attention was focused on the 11-day Israeli-Hamas war, animal rights activists and dog lovers in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz were furious and protesting the city’s mayor who had ordered the mass killings...

May 23, 2021, 7:05 AM

We Didn’t Escape Khomeini’s Jew-Hatred to Live with it Again in L.A.

Iranian Jewish businessman Ebrahim Berookhim who was randomly beaten and executed by Iranian regime in July 1980. Photo courtesy of Berookhim family.

A little more than 40 years ago, thugs of the Khomeini regime in Tehran randomly arrested, beaten, tortured and executed my then 30-year-old relative by the name of Ebrahim Berookhim. His crime in the eyes of the regime? He...

Apr 4, 2021, 5:34 AM

Cyrus Accords’ old seeds of peace: Iran & Israel’s forgotten friendship

Meir Ezri, Israel’s late chargé d'affaires in Iran from 1958 to 1973, photo from youtube.com

In February former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates and Len Khodorkovsky, former senior adviser to the U.S. special representative for Iran, proposed the “Cyrus Accords” a peace initiative in the near future between Iran and Israel. The plan...

Jan 2, 2021, 2:36 PM

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Iran’s human rights crisis: A cause for American Jews on the left

Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam executed by Iran's regime in December 2020.

Now that making a 'deal' with this regime is on the agenda for many US politicians, the Jewish community must speak out

Dec 15, 2020, 11:24 AM

It’s time for Iranian American Jews to speak up about Iran’s mullah regime

A 500-page Farsi language copy of the Iranian regime's anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion, photo by Karmel Melamed

Late last month, the B’nai Brith Canada organization permitted me the special honor to discuss the plight of Jews who lived in and fled the Khomeini regime in Iran over the last four decades during an online program they...

About Me

Karmel Melamed is an award-winning internationally published Iranian American journalist based in Southern California; He is a member of the Speakers Bureau of JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa