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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

  • It's actually called Tehrangeles because there are so many ex-patriot Iranians living there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News 2010

  • 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

  • The city has earned the nickname "Tehrangeles" for the large influx of Iranians who fled there after the 1979 revolution.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2007 2007

  • Go read Roger L. Simon's whole piece; PJM will be covering the "Tehrangeles" election.

    Classical Values 2009

  • -- 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • Blend of Tehran/Los Angeles; referring to the Persian community in LA

    July 28, 2016

  • Another city with a large Persian community is Tehranto. (Tehran + Toronto).

    July 28, 2016

  • I'm waiting for the Iranian pop-splatter film genre to get called Tehrantino.

    July 29, 2016