Combating the Double Erasure: Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic?

Abstract Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian Jews have faced two powerful and inherently contradictory calls to compromise their voice identity. From one side, Israel has consistently held opinion that as an at-risk community they should be evacuated resettled. On other, Iran's revolutionary regime made “Islamic” a centerpiece of identity, placing Jewish identity directly at odds with what it means Iranian. For decades, foreign opposition groups spread baseless unsubstantiated claims suggesting are placed in concentration camps or forced wear yellow stars. At same time, top politicians repeatedly peddle anti-Semitic innuendo promote Holocaust denial conspiracies. Yet such narratives miss central fact rarely acknowledged Western academic public spheres: continued maintain ownership story narrative both Jewish. This article seeks analyze navigation between struggle religious minority Islamic Republic maintenance autonomous represented outside Iran.