My doctor is from Iran. Graduated Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1992.

[IcyPeas]

He's fantastic and he's board certified. His wife is also a doctor. There are a lot of Persians here in Los Angeles.

Anyway, I'm just thinking of him. Of course I don't know what his political beliefs are.

This just sucks.

[enid602]

1. LA

I imagine the fear in ‘Teherangeles’ is palpable.

[IcyPeas]

2. Exactly. Will ICE round them up too?

[enid602]

3. Ice

That is scary. Ice might think they’re low hanging fruit.

[EllieBC]

4. The community was there but got huge as a result of people

FLEEING Iran after the revolution in 1979. Not sure they’d be Khameni sympathizers.

LA also has there largest Persian Jewish population in North America.

[enid602]

5. Iranians

They’re not pro Iranian Government, but I’m afraid that Ice will use current government ban on Muslims to use the Iranians as fodder to detain enough people to make their numbers. You know, arrest now and figure out who’s a citizen later, after they’ve been deported.

[EllieBC]

6. True

ICE would just make things 10000000 times worse.

[ananda]

7. i used to have an Iranian friend

who is now a professor in California.

He taught me so much about the culture
and language,

He translated a lot of the poetry for me,
and it wasso beautiful.

I came to think that the Persians have an
incredible affinity to beauty.

I would hate to see that lost.

[milestogo]

8. I had a really good surgeon from Iran.

He was born there, but he served in the US air force.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Most Iranian ex pats hate the regime. That's why their ex pats.

I know that empirically and anecdotally.