Tehrangeles

[mahroz]

pesarashon khodeshoneh vaseh dokhtarayeh irani mikoshan.

Mahroz, rastesho begoo, chand tashoon khodeshoono barat koshtan?

bayad bebinam hmmmm hosele nadaram, beshmaram, fagat mitonam begam ziad

[Nushabeh]

chon"T"e akharesho bozorg neveshtan fekr kardan mesle farsi bood va akharin horoof bozorg neveshte misheh

LOL oooooooo i c

[Rostam]

looooooooooooooL

[jjbb]

hame ja khobo bad hast vali in iraniha to amrica daste hame ra az badi nesbat be ham az posht bastan....hasod, fakhr frokhtan, khanjar zadan be irani ha digar.....

[Michellica]

wow cool pic ..thx iq!!!
dar bareye irania ke khanjar mizanan az posht...normale tooye caracteristic e irania shode dige ke ye alameh chaploosi bekonano bad az posht 1000ta bado bira began...too iranam ke hame sare kolahye hamdigera mizanan hatta be familam nemishe etemad kard!

[jjbb]

cool

[Cop]

'Tehrangeles' Rising -- Iranian- Americans Make Their Mark in Hollywood

[IQ]

yeah.

[Cop]

yup yup yup bebinim chi kar mikonan

[IQ]

bebinim. shaayad aadam shodan

[Cop]

khoda az dahanet beshnave

[ali_shad]

bahal bodand.

[IQ]

go read the first page, first post. you'll understand.

[Rasputin]

Perhaps nowhere is the standoff over Iran's nuclear enrichment program followed more closely than in Los Angeles' Iranian-American community. Known as Tehrangeles, it's the biggest community of Iranians outside Iran.

And if there's a downtown Tehrangeles, it's a stretch of Westwood Boulevard, on the edge of the UCLA campus next door to Beverly Hills. Pop into any shop and you'll hear Farsi. The business signs are all in Persian.

The popular Ketab Bookshop features Persian books and CDs. The TV at the back of this and other stores is tuned to an Iranian program. There are 20 Farsi-language channels to choose from on satellite television. More than a dozen are based in Southern California and beamed back to Iran.

Delaram, a young clerk in the bookstore, came here three years ago. She figured rightly that she could find a job in this Persian community. Her father was a general under the former Shah, protected after the revolution by family members connected to the new Islamic government.

"I had been brought up in a system that I was told to walk on American flag," she says. But she became curious about America and started practicing her English as a little girl, long before she had ever heard of Tehrangeles.

But because so many people in the community speak Persian, she hardly ever gets to speak English.

Community estimates put the Iranian population in Southern California at 500,000. In Beverly Hills, Iranians now account for 20 percent of the population and 40 percent of the students in the schools.

Iranian-born Jimmy Delshad is the vice mayor of Beverly Hills, who came to the area in 1959 and later built a computer hardware company. By his calculations, Delshad is now the top elected Iranian-American official in the United States. Like most Iranians, he has thrived in America. The per capita income of Iranian-Americans is 50 percent higher than the national average. Just under 40 percent have a college degree.

And about the most contentious political problem faced by Iranians in Beverly Hills was when the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting the building of extravagant white-pillared McMansions, known here as Persian Palaces.

In his office in City Hall, Delshad proudly displays campaign buttons and election brochures written in Farsi, something the city did for the first time when he ran for office.

When he ran for city council, Delshad had to persuade the city's Iranians to register.

"In Iran, if you were on a list it was generally not good. It doesn't matter what the list was, because somebody would misuse that list. There was that fear."

Here is where a small dark cloud seems to form over Tehrangeles. Even for those who have been here for decades, there is the sense of the watchful eye of a distant regime.

No one seems shy to criticize the Iranian regime. One man cheerfully called President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "monkey" and another called him a dictator on tape. But then both men insisted their names not be used.

Rumors of danger are whispered about on Westwood Boulevard. It's true that for more than a decade after the revolution, hit squads roamed Europe, sent by the regime to silence opposition leaders. One assassination even took place on American soil.

The subterfuge goes both ways. The Council on Foreign Relations released a report last month citing Tehrangeles as a place the CIA sees as a potential source of intelligence.

In the end, the exiles of Tehrangeles have many different vision of how Iran fits into their future. Even with vivid memories of their home country pulling them back, most aren't optimistic about political change.

Like Jamie, the owner of a printing shop in Westwood: "Of course, I would like to go and visit there again if possible. I would like to see a free Iran, but it doesn't seem to happen soon, even though I wish it would happen soon."

[Rasputin]

يك كارشناس اقتصادي در گفتگو با ايسنا مي گويد: ما هميشه شاهد ورود سرمايه هاي ايرانيان خارج از كشور به داخل ايران بوديم ولي نه براي سرمايه گذاري هاي بلندمدت و توليدي بلكه تنها براي سپرده گذاري ها كه در حال حاضر هم پس از كاهش نرخ سود سپرده ها جريان خروج سرمايه از ايران شدت بيشتري گرفته است.
دكتربهمن آرمان معتقد است: جريان خروج سرمايه از ايران كه اخيراً در بيانيه اي از سوي بانك مركزي نيز ابلاغ شده بسيار افزايش يافته و حتي مراجعه به چند صرافي بزرگ در تهران نيز مي تواند تاييدكننده چنين جرياني باشد.
اين كارشناس اقتصادي عنوان كرد: در حال حاضر در نظر گرفتن واقعيت ها، كار اصلي تك تك ماست؛ اگر به جريان سرمايه گذاري هاي مستقيم خارجي در جهان نگاهي بيندازيم به سادگي مي شود مشاهده كرد كه بخش بزرگي از اين سرمايه گذاري هاي مستقيم خارجي در خود كشورهاي صنعتي جريان دارد.
او با اشاره به سهم اندك شمال آفريقا و خاورميانه در سرمايه گذاري هاي خارجي اذعان كرد: اين مناطق سهم بسيار كمي از سرمايه گذاري هاي خارجي را سهيم هستند كه متاسفانه ايران نيز در همين منطقه قرار دارد و در حال حاضر در ايران نيز شرايط لازم براي سرمايه گذاري داخلي فراهم نيست.
اين كارشناس اقتصادي گفت: سرمايه گذاران ايراني در داخل كشور سرمايه گذاري نمي كنند و ترجيح مي دهند كه سرمايه هاي خود را در تركيه، امارات متحده عربي و محل هاي امن ديگري سرمايه گذاري كنند بنابراين در چنين شرايطي بعيد به نظر مي آيد كه ايرانيان خارج از كشور كه سرمايه هاي آنها بالغ به 800 تا 900 ميليارد دلار برآورد مي شود به داخل ايران برگردانند و اين كار يك انتظار كاملاً غيرمنطقي است.
وي در پاسخ به اين پرسش كه براي برگرداندن سرمايه ها به داخل كشور چه اقداماتي را بايد انجام داد، خاطرنشان كرد: براي برگرداندن سرمايه ها آن هم در ابعاد چندصد ميليارد دلاري بايد تدابير بسيار جدي و درستي را انديشيد زيرا اگر اين سرمايه ها به ايران برگردند بسيار به اقتصاد ضعيف ايران كمك مي كند.
به اعتقاد او بازگشت سرمايه هاي ايرانيان خارج از كشور يك ذهنيت كاملاً اشتباه است به عنوان نمونه سرمايه هاي هندي هاي مقيم اروپا و آمريكا هيچ گاه به هندوستان برنمي گردد و در حال نيز بزرگترين مجموعه توليد خودروسازي جهان متعلق به يك هندي است ولي اين هندي حتي يك دلار در هندوستان سرمايه گذاري نكرده است.
وي اظهار كرد: يك سوم آسمان خراش هاي لس آنجلس متعلق به شركت هاي ايراني است و سازندگان اصلي اين برج ها ايرانيان هستند ولي يكي از اين شركت ها در ايران فعاليت نمي كند.