That being said, however, Tehrangeles is not the easiest place to visit. The Los Angeles Persian Parade, 2014, with pre-1979 flags and a gigantic Cyrus Cylinder in tow. Tehrangeles has emerged into a global brand, and while Tehranto (Toronto), Dubai and other Iranian diaspora centers have sprung up worldwide, Los Angeles’ hold on the global Iranian imagination is unrivalled. This includes not only the 75 million Iranians in Iran, but also the estimated 3 million Iranians that have settled in countries as diverse as Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, France, Great Britain, Turkey, Israel, and many others, in addition to the United States. Although today post-Revolutionary Iran boasts a strong tradition of cinematic, musical, and artistic production, the LA scene continues to be hugely influential in shaping trends across the Iranian global cultural sphere. In the years since, Iranian-Americans set up record labels and music halls, and by the 1990s they were beaming satellite television around the world and directly into Iran as well.
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LA has been the base of the global Iranian pop culture industry since the 1979 Revolution, when thousands of artists, musicians, and performers fled their homeland amidst political uncertainty and the rise of a government with a hostile attitude toward the pop culture industry.
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Home to a community of at least 700,000 Iranians that dates back more than half a century, no other city can compete with the vibrant and diverse microcosm of Iranian diaspora life hosted by this West Coast city.Īnd it’s not just within the United States that “Tehrangeles” makes its presence felt. Los Angeles is the undisputed capital of the global Iranian diaspora.