After the 1979 revolution, a wave of immigration began among Iranian Jews, and their population of 80,000 to 100,000 gradually decreased to less than 25,000. Most of the Iranian Jewish immigrants who left Iran after the revolution settled in California and New York in the United States, and a group also settled in Israel and Europe. Jamshid Delshad, the former mayor of Beverly Hills, California (from March 2007 to March 2008), is an Iranian Jew who had immigrated to the United States years before the revolution. A significant portion of the population of this elite neighborhood is made up of Iranian Jews. More than half of the remaining Jews in Iran live in Tehran, and the rest are scattered in cities such as Shiraz and Isfahan, and a small number in Yazd and Hamedan, and other areas. Most Jews turn to freelance work due to employment difficulties. Of course, there is no legal prohibition on employing them in most jobs.
The political, social and religious movements of the Jewish community are concentrated in the three circles of the Jewish religious authority, the Jewish representative in the Islamic Consultative Assembly and the board of directors of the Tehran Jewish Association. Any announcement of the position or pursuit of legal, political and social issues of the Jewish community is carried out through the aforementioned institutions.