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At a Father\u2019s Day gathering last month at a Los Angeles-area restaurant, the chatter amongst Yasmeen Ohebsion\u2019s family dealt almost entirely with Iran. The Israel Defense Forces the previous Friday morning had launched attacks on multiple sites in the country in an effort to destroy the anti-Israel regime\u2019s facilities for producing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. The Israeli strikes would last 12 days until U.S. President Donald Trump declared a ceasefire. (The United States hit Iranian targets late in the campaign.) By that time, the IDF had neutralized much of Iran\u2019s offensive capabilities. Iranian missiles had hit Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beer Sheva, killing 28 civilians. That was on top of Israel and Iran having attacked each another twice in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in the restaurant, the relatives continued their discussion of recent days, wondering whether the regime was wobbling and if the long-ago Iran they loved, when they and other Jews lived freely and Tehran and Jerusalem enjoyed diplomatic relations, could return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Jewish Congress in Iran, November 25-28, 1957, ORT Photo Collection<\/a>, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But geopolitics didn\u2019t overwhelm the personal this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohebsion\u2019s grandmother phoned her lifelong friend, a Muslim, back in Tehran to ask how she was faring. At another point, Ohebsion turned to her father \u2014 who\u2019d fled to the United States in the late 1970s during the revolution that overthrew Iran\u2019s Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and installed Muslim religious leaders \u2014 and asked what he desired as a Father\u2019s Day gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy dad broke down and said, \u2018My wish is to take my family to visit Iran,\u2019\u201d said Ohebsion, the founder and chief executive officer of Our Campus United, a Jewish collegiate organization. \u201cAnd now he thinks the wish can come true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the two conversations constituted a \u201cbeautiful moment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer in Tehran, August 1957, ORT Photo Collection<\/a>, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Approximately 80,000 Iranian Jewish immigrants and their descendants live in the United States, primarily in Los Angeles and New York City. Fewer than 10,000 Jews are estimated to remain in Iran, primarily in Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A report on aid for new Jewish-Iranian immigrants to New York, from March 28, 1980, J. Jewish News of Northern California<\/a><\/em>, the Historical Jewish Press Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Wherever they live, Iranian Jews are known to extend mutual support, are committed to Jewish tradition and maintain strong familial bonds, several members of the American emigree\u2019 community said. One man, who requested anonymity, said that Iranian-American Jews felt proud when Sharona Nazarian, who was born in Iran and as a child lived in Israel, was elected in April as mayor of Beverly Hills, a wealthy enclave of 31,000 people adjacent to Los Angeles. Nazarian\u2019s election is an example of \u201can immigration success,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n

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A report on young Jewish-Iranian students seeking housing in the California Bay Area, March 21, 1980, J. Jewish News of Northern California<\/a><\/em>, the Historical Jewish Press Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The vast majority of those who left Iran did so, like Nazarian\u2019s parents and Ohebsion\u2019s father, in fear for their future as Jews during the upheaval of the late 1970s that ushered in a now-46-year period of Islamic fundamentalist rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebration of Jewish holidays at a girls school in Iran, mid-20th century, ORT Photo Collection<\/a>, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That concern resurfaced in late June following the arrests of hundreds of Jews and other citizens whom the regime charged with supporting and even aiding the Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Jewish and non-Jewish Iranian-American expatriates interviewed for this article requested anonymity out of concern that the regime could exact revenge against their loved ones back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly all of the Jewish and non-Jewish interviewees expressed support for Israel\u2019s strikes against Iran, especially for its targeting of the regime rather than average civilians. They said they hope the attacks weaken the regime and embolden Iranian citizens to topple it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIranian people are not happy that our homeland is being bombed, but, rather, that the killers of our children are. They\u2019re upset about the ceasefire,\u201d said a U.S.-born foreign affairs analyst whose parents fled Iran in the late 1970s. \u201cThere\u2019s a very small percentage that saw Israel or America as the enemy. Most saw Israel as the Messiah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebration of Jewish holidays at a girls school in Iran, mid-20th century, ORT Photo Collection<\/a>, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those interviewed related difficulties in reaching friends and relatives during the crisis, due, apparently, to the regime\u2019s periodically cutting Internet and cellular phone service. Some said they telephoned those with land lines to ask that they check on the callers\u2019 loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two non-Jewish Iranian-American expatriates and their Jewish-American friends reported asking about each other\u2019s loved ones living in Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNeil and I could connect because we know that the other person would understand,\u201d a non-Jewish Iranian expatriate, who requested to be identified by only her first name, Shiva, said of a Jewish-American she knows in their industry who is not of Iranian descent and whose daughter and sister live near Tel Aviv. \u201cI would say, \u2018I\u2019m sorry about what\u2019s happening.\u2019 I\u2019m following the news in Iran, and he\u2019s following the news in Israel. Knowing what\u2019s going on there is another piece of information about the same war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the surface, they have some freedom, but they\u2019re afraid \u2014 and after the 12-days\u2019 war, it\u2019s gotten worse,\u201d Elham Yaghoubian, a Jewish Iranian who moved to Los Angeles in 1999, said of Jewish friends in Iran with whom she\u2019s been in contact. \u201cPeople have gotten arrested for talking to relatives in Israel since the war started. We hope they\u2019ll be released soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Iranian emigree, Rozita Ghiasi, had returned to Baltimore shortly before the Iran-Israel war broke out. She\u2019d spent six weeks in Tehran, surprising her brother and other relatives there. The visit revived the warm feelings Ghiasi, a Muslim who\u2019s lived in the United States for 38 years, holds for aspects of her homeland: intra-family closeness, the hospitality people extend even to strangers, the herbs and the sweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like the best of me just came out\u201d while back in Iran, she said. \u201cThe people of Iran don\u2019t judge you based on your color, your religion. They don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the visit, Ghiasi\u2019s brother sensed that war was imminent and questioned her timing. \u201cI took a chance and went. I had such a wonderful time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just hope for peace for both sides. Seeing people in Israel suffer breaks my heart. Seeing people in Iran suffer breaks my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer-editor Hillel Kuttler can be reached at <\/em>hk@HillelTheScribeCommunications.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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