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Los Angeles (and Southern California in general) is home to a large Iranian-American community. With population estimates between 300,000 to half a million, Southern California boasts the largest concentration of Iranians in the world, outside of Iran. ==Early Years and later history== Iranian immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As the 1979 Iranian Revolution unfolded, large numbers of Iranians fled Iran. Many of them settled in Los Angeles.〔Daragahi, Borzou. "Exiles keep Iran in touch." ''Los Angeles Times''. December 10, 2009. p. (1 ). Retrieved on April 2, 2014.〕 Many Iranian immigrants, including Muslims, Christians, and Jews, originated from the upper classes.〔Mitchell, John L. "Iranian Jews Find a Beverly Hills Refuge : Immigrants: Khomeini's revolution drove 40,000 of them into exile. At least 30,000 may live in or near the city that symbolizes wealth." ''Los Angeles Times''. February 13, 1990. Retrieved on March 11, 2015. p. (2 ).〕 Los Angeles was ideal for Iranians because it reminded them of home. The "landscape, the car culture, () the mountains" was similar to what was found in 1970s Iran, says Dr. Reza Aslan.〔 Over the years, the Iranian community expanded across Southern California, with large numbers settling in Beverly Hills, the San Fernando Valley, Irvine and greater Orange County, as well as the Inland Empire. Regarding Iranian-Americans of Armenian origin, the 1980 US Census put the number of Armenians living in Los Angeles at 52,400, of which 71.9% were foreign born: 14.7% in Iran, 14.3% in the USSR, 11.5% in Lebanon, 9.7% in Turkey, 11.7% in other Middle Eastern countries (Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, etc.), and the rest in other parts of the world. In 1988 up to 3,000 Iranian Armenians were scheduled to arrive in the Los Angeles area.〔Arax, Mark and Esther Schrader. "County Braces for Sudden Influx of Soviet Armenians." ''Los Angeles Times''. March 8, 1988. (online page 2 ). Print: Vol.107, p.1. Available from Cengage Learning, Inc. Retrieved on July 2, 2014.〕 A person quoted in ''Translating LA'' stated that Iranians in Los Angeles had "a wish to be invisible, which may have stemmed from the anti-Iranian feeling during the U.S. hostage episode."〔Bozorgmehr, Der-Martirosian, Sabagh, "Middle Easterners: A New Kind of Immigrant," p. (346 ). p. (375 ) identifies footnote three as: Theroux, Peter. ''Translating LA'' (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), p. 49.〕 In 2008 an 18-year-old Beverly Hills High School student died after falling from a building; the Iranian community disputed the Los Angeles Police Department findings that the death was suicide.〔Hennessy-Fiske, Molly and Tami Abdollah. "Community torn by tragedy." ''Los Angeles Times''. September 15, 2008. p. (1 ). Retrieved on March 11, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Iranians in Los Angeles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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