00:01We came to Beverly Hills because my parents said, we have to start over, where are we going to go?
00:06And my dad said, I love those palm trees on Beverly Drive, I kid you not.
00:10Especially in Los Angeles, a lot of Persians share that.
00:13It doesn't matter if you're a doctor, a lawyer, a dentist, you probably own four or five properties as well
00:18and you have two in their construction.
00:19Iranians in Los Angeles are known as one of the most affluent and successful immigrant communities in the United States.
00:25The largest group of Iranians outside Iran lives in L.A., hence the nickname Teirondalus.
00:33Ironically, Teirondalus grew out of the same revolution in 1979 that helped set the stage for the war rocking Iran
00:40and the wider Middle East today.
00:43That revolution set in motion two very different realities on opposite sides of the world.
00:49In Iran, most people are struggling to afford daily necessities, triggering mass protests.
00:55If you cannot pay for food, then you have nothing to lose.
00:59The Iranian community in L.A. largely started from refugees fleeing regime change in the 70s and 80s, who avoided
01:05the devastating currency collapse and inflation that eventually followed.
01:09Many lost nearly everything in the transition.
01:12They rebuilt in Los Angeles, somewhere that felt kind of familiar.
01:16The Tehran that I remember was not very different from Los Angeles at the time.
01:22It was a really vibrant city and people from all over the world there all the time.
01:27They would have been sister cities if things had been different.
01:30Now staring at the world and being trafficked in South Korea at the time of la Starting Mercury
01:30the people wrote this �vane is different.
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