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Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.
In 2000, the Iran Press Service reported that Iranian expatriates had invested between $200 and $400 billion in the United States, Europe, and China, but almost nothing in Iran. [5] In Dubai, Iranian expatriates have invested an estimated $200 billion (2006). [29] Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in ...
As of the 1990 U.S. Census there were 76,000 Iranians in the Los Angeles region, 29% of the overall Iranian population of the United States. [15] In 1980, of the 37,700 ethnic Armenians in Los Angeles who were born outside of the United States, 7,700 came from Iran, [16] outnumbering all other migrations of Armenians from any other nation.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and a group of GOP senators will hold a press conference on the Israel-Gaza conflict and the Biden administration’s handling of $6 billion in Iranian funds ...
This wave of Azerbaijani immigrants settled mainly in New York City and its metropolitan area, which hosts the largest population of Azerbaijani-Americans, in Northern New Jersey and Massachusetts; and later in Florida, Texas, and California, especially in Los Angeles area where there is a large Iranian community, many of whom are Iranian ...
As women and girls continue to protest and challenge the government in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, women across the world are ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in.
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.
An American-Iranian journalist who once worked for a US-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained in Iran, according to his former employer and multiple press freedom groups.