Hooman M. Melamed, MD FAAOS

02/15/2026

ystemic issues often go deep. Patient safety must always come first. This LA Times investigation into Cedars-Sinai’s handling of abuse complaints raises important questions about accountability in healthcare. The LA Times reports on years of ignored complaints at Cedars-Sinai. It takes courage to speak up for safety, but the truth eventually comes out. Worth a read

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01/26/2026

Dr. Ameneh Soleimani has been arrested for one so-called “crime”: helping injured protesters.

For two weeks, she has vanished.
No calls. No visits. No updates. Nothing.

In Iran, saving lives is being treated like a punishable offense.

Be her voice—before the regime silences her for good.

01/26/2026

01/26/2026

01/26/2026

Dear Mr. President Obama,
In 2009, your administration offered no support to Iran’s Green Movement protesters seeking democracy. Many got slaughtered
In 2015-2016, Project Cassandra—a DEA effort to dismantle Hezbollah’s global narcotics network tied to Iran’s IRGC—was stalled & stopped by your administration to secure the ill advised JCPOA nuclear deal.
That agreement released over $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets and included a $1.7 billion cash settlement, effectively bolstering the regime. And supporting all of their terror proxy activities yet starving their own people.

Now, over 40,000 people have been massacred and murdered in Iran by the tyrannical regime—yet your recent statement focuses solely on one tragic U.S. death where facts remain unclear.
I urge you, sir, to embrace greater moral clarity on these interconnected issues.

01/25/2026

BREAKING: Iranian officials told the New York Times that on January 9, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Supreme National Security Council to suppress the protests by “any means necessary.”

Security forces were then deployed with explicit instructions to “shoot to kill” and “show no mercy.”

01/25/2026

Emory University has dismissed Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, the daughter of the US-sanctioned security chief of the Islamic Republic, the university confirmed to Iran International on Saturday, following growing calls for her removal.

“A physician who is the daughter of a senior Iranian government official is no longer an employee of Emory,” the university’s Winship Cancer Institute, where Larijani worked, said in response to Iran International’s inquiry.

01/20/2026

Come and get some. Ready for you if you are man enough to show up man to man. My five-year-old son will destroy you in less than a minute. 

01/16/2026

AN IRANIAN IRGC COMMANDERS’S DAUGHTER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE ATROCITIES OF THE REGIME AND WHAT HER OWN FATHER HAS DONE. THIS IS BEYOND DISTURBING AND VERY GUT WRENCHING TO WATCH AND LISTEN.