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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Persians

Two shoppers select items at a grocery store in the "Tehrangeles" neighborhood of Los Angeles, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
End of Israel-Iran war tests the harmony of LA’s huge, mixed-faith Iranian community
By DEEPA BHARATH
Fallout of the 12-day war has come to ‘Tehrangeles,’ the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world; ‘It’s been an emotional roller coaster,’ says one local
Two shoppers select items at a grocery store in the "Tehrangeles" neighborhood of Los Angeles, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
July 5, 2025, 8:31 pm
End of Israel-Iran war tests the harmony of LA’s huge, mixed-faith Iranian community
Fallout of the 12-day war has come to ‘Tehrangeles,’ the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world; ‘It’s been an emotional roller coaster,’ says one local
By DEEPA BHARATH
The old flag of Iran used prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution stands on the National Mall in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2025. (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP)
June 25, 2025, 7:30 pm
For Iranian-Americans, Israel-Iran war brought out complex feelings of fear and hope
While much of the diaspora is desperate for change in Tehran, most agree it can’t come from US or Israel: ‘We want to do it internally… not through bombing’
By MARIAM FAM
Iranian-born wind musician Amir Shahar, middle, in rehearsal ahead of the Oud Festival, November 3-12, 2022 at Jerusalem's Confederation House (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 6, 2022, 6:56 pm
Sounds of Sufism combine with Persian music in Oud Festival
Sitar, ney, daf and santur are some of the instruments recruited to tell the story of a 13th-century mystic’s voyage, highlight of an annual event celebrating Middle Eastern music
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis rally in Independence Park in Jerusalem on October 6, 2022, in solidarity with Iranian women (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
October 6, 2022, 8:35 pm
Israelis rally in Jerusalem in solidarity with Iranian women protesters
‘We want to say here in Israel that we believe you deserve your freedom,’ says co-organizer Shoshana Keats Jaskoll, as protesters wave signs in Hebrew, English and Farsi
By Amy Spiro
A woman accused of contacting a foreign agent from Iran, arrives for a court hearing in the Jerusalem District Court, January 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2022, 6:31 pm
In questioning, women in Iran espionage case insist they had no sinister intentions
Report quotes 2 targets, who had both faced marital problems and are now accused of spying, saying agent offered them money, tried to lure them abroad
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: Likud MK Keti Shitrit attends a Knesset committee meeting on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 12, 2022, 10:21 pm
‘I was in total shock’: Likud MK among those targeted in Iranian espionage operation
Keti Shitrit says one of women nabbed by Shin Bet reached out to ask for help in getting her son transferred into the IDF’s elite 8200 intelligence unit
By ToI Staff
An undated Facebook profile picture that was used by an alleged Iranian intelligence operative, known as Rambod Namdar, to make contact with Israeli citizens, several of whom were indicted on January 12, 2022. (Shin Bet)
January 12, 2022, 5:06 pm
Shin Bet arrests 5 Jewish Israelis suspected of spying for Iran
Suspects photographed sensitive sites in Israel, attempted to get their kids to join army intelligence units; Bennett tells citizens ‘to be vigilant’ against such online attempts
By Judah Ari Gross
Left: The book cover of 'Titan of Tehran.' Right: Habib Elghanian, a prominent leader of Iran's Jewish community, seen during his trial in Iran that led to his 1979 execution. (Collage by Grace Yagel/JTA)
January 6, 2022, 3:11 am
An Iranian Jewish leader was executed in 1979. His granddaughter tells his story
In ‘Titan of Tehran,’ Shahrzad Elghanayan writes about her grandfather, a philanthropist who gave his life rather than abandon his community during the Islamic Revolution
By Howard Lovy
Arya Marvazy marching at the 2019 Los Angeles Pride Parade. (Anna Falzetta/ via JTA)
June 22, 2020, 3:33 am
Persian Jews in US come out of the closet, breaking long-held community taboos
Recent years have seen rapid change as more LGBTQ community members speak up, leading to wider education, acceptance, and more events and resources for themselves and family
By Josefin Dolsten
Image of a man caught on camera ransacking the Beverly Hills Nessah Synagogue, December 14, 2019. (Beverly Hills Police Department)
December 15, 2019, 7:17 am
Police investigating hate crime after Los Angeles synagogue ransacked
Suspect destroys relics at Beverly Hills Nessah Synagogue, which serves the area’s large Persian community; police say attack shows no signs of overt anti-Semitism
By ToI Staff
In this June 26, 2009 file photo BBC Persian service presenter Fardad Farahzad, right, gets ready to present the news, at the corporation's London headquarters Inside the studios of BBC Persian television, dozens of journalists have been working around the clock at their computers and telephones, trying to report the news to Iran or, according to the government in Tehran, stirring up trouble. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson,file)
March 1, 2019, 8:11 pm
BBC details new ‘harassment’ of Persian service staff by Iran
Employees describe receiving death threats targeting their children, missing parents’ funerals due to travel bans, and facing attempts by Iranian agents to recruit them as spies
By AFP
Iranian Islamic Republic Army soldiers carry posters of the Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution of 1979. (Keystone/Getty Images/via JTA)
March 1, 2019, 5:57 am
40 years after Iranian Revolution, LA’s Persian Jews are still feeling the pain
Thousands of Jewish families recall traumatic memories of violence, imprisonment, anti-Semitism and chaos after dictator Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power
By Karmel Melamed
These Jewish-minted coins from Yehud, a province of semiautonomous Jewish rule under the Persian Empire, were discovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. (courtesy Temple Mount Sifting Project)
May 24, 2018, 8:24 pm
3 tiny, extremely rare 4th century BCE Jewish-minted coins found in Jerusalem
Struck during the Persian era, owl-inscribed ‘Yehud’ coins were discovered in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, doubling the number found in the Israeli capital
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Mohammad Delavari, left, and two members of his filming crew interviewing Iris Tzur at her home in Amsterdam, March 1, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
March 28, 2018, 5:06 am
What a Jewish reporter learned from an afternoon with 3 Iranian journalists
Cordial interactions were superimposed over a mutual distrust, says Cnaan Lipshiz, but perhaps signify a crack in the usual demonization
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Iranian youths sit at a cafe in Tehran (AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
August 19, 2016, 7:35 am
Iran’s language watchdog goes to war against ‘Nutella Bars’
Crepe and waffle cafe chain ordered to change its name in fight over Western lingo; authorities propose ‘Hot Bread, Hot Chocolate’ in Farsi
By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani
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