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Last year, Jersey Shore producers said they were intending to do a spin-off called The Persian Version, set around Los Angeles — which some call Tehrangeles because an estimated 700,000-plus Persians live there now many of whom left Iran in 1979 when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was deposed.
Seacrest Brings Show on L.A.'s Persian Community to Bravo 2011
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It's actually called Tehrangeles because there are so many ex-patriot Iranians living there.
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Online gossips claimed the Grammy winners were adding finishing touches to a new release called Tehrangeles,
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 shantanu 2010
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Online gossips claimed the Grammy winners were adding finishing touches to a new release called Tehrangeles, a follow up to their 2007 album In Rainbows.
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In case you didn't know it, Los Angeles, aka Tehrangeles, is one of the biggest Iranian cities in the world, perhaps the biggest outside Iran.
Classical Values 2009
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The city has earned the nickname "Tehrangeles" for the large influx of Iranians who fled there after the 1979 revolution.
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Go read Roger L. Simon's whole piece; PJM will be covering the "Tehrangeles" election.
Classical Values 2009
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-- whether in "Tehrangeles" or in Washington (even Americans abroad have a warped view of what's going on in the States).
Lionel Beehner: How Can We Have 'High Confidence' About Anything in Iran? 2008
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Interestingly, after those immigrants put themselves through all that trouble to leave, they re-created in the new world miniature versions of their homeland -- Little Italies, Koreatowns, Little Tokyos, Tehrangeles and so on.
Dr. Ali Binazir: Should You Date Outside Your Tribe? Dr. Ali Binazir 2012
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Interestingly, after those immigrants put themselves through all that trouble to leave, they re-created in the new world miniature versions of their homeland -- Little Italies, Koreatowns, Little Tokyos, Tehrangeles and so on.
Dr. Ali Binazir: Should You Date Outside Your Tribe? Dr. Ali Binazir 2012
alexz commented on the word Tehrangeles
Blend of Tehran/Los Angeles; referring to the Persian community in LA
July 28, 2016
vendingmachine commented on the word Tehrangeles
Another city with a large Persian community is Tehranto. (Tehran + Toronto).
July 28, 2016
bilby commented on the word Tehrangeles
I'm waiting for the Iranian pop-splatter film genre to get called Tehrantino.
July 29, 2016