Moussa Kermanian (1922–1980) was one of the leading Iranian Jewish community leaders, a lawyer, businessman and journalist.
[3] He was one of the early Iranian Jews who advocated the rights of the group during the Pahlavi regime.
[6] Kermanian left Iran before 1979 and started his real estate company in Los Angeles which he managed with his son, Sam.
[1] Kermanian organized a meeting with American President Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1980 and headed the delegation composed of the Iranian Jews who left Iran because of the negative conditions as a result of the religious government established in 1979.
[1] As of 2001 his son, Sam, was the president of the Iranian-American Jewish Federation based in West Hollywood, California.