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Tehrangeles (Persian: تهرانجلس) (or Little Persia) is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Los Angeles. Many foreign governments have established diplomatic and trade representation in the city of Los Angeles, California . Most of them are at the Consulate-General level; many of these are located along Wilshire Boulevard or on the Westside of Los Angeles.
Omid-e-Iran OITN (English: Hope of Iran) is an American television network, inaugurated in 1995. [1] The original mission was to broadcast television content and news to the Iranian American community of Southern California , however the scope broadened to the international Iranian community.
Los Angeles, the second most populous U.S. city, is home to an Iranian community of nearly 138,000 people, of the 400,000-620,000 people of Iranian ancestry in the United States, according to the ...
The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. ISBN 0816620873, 9780816620876. Soomekh, Sabah. From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture. SUNY Press, November 1, 2012. ISBN 1438443838, 9781438443836.
In 1985, the Los Angeles Times estimated 200,000 Iranian Americans were living in California; and by 1991 the estimate jumped to 800,000, however the accuracy of these numbers could be debated due to a lack of data. [65] [63] In 1990, Los Angeles had a larger population of religious minorities than Muslims, who were the religious majority in ...
KIRN (670 AM) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Simi Valley, California and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Lotus Communications and broadcasts ethnic Iranian programming. KIRN's studios are located at Fallbrook Center in the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Many of Los Angeles’ federal offices are located in this building. [3] The building actually is not located on municipal Los Angeles land, but in a small (0.90-square-mile (2.3 km 2 )), unincorporated area of Los Angeles County enclosed by the city, known as unincorporated Sawtelle.