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IcyPeas

(25,797 posts) Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:36 PM Jun 2025

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

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.

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My doctor is from Iran. Graduated Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1992. (Original Post) IcyPeas Jun 2025 OP

LA enid602 Jun 2025 #1

Exactly. Will ICE round them up too? IcyPeas Jun 2025 #2

Ice enid602 Jun 2025 #3

The community was there but got huge as a result of people EllieBC Jun 2025 #4

Iranians enid602 Jun 2025 #5

True EllieBC Jun 2025 #6

i used to have an Iranian friend ananda Jun 2025 #7

I had a really good surgeon from Iran. milestogo Jun 2025 #8

Most Iranian ex pats hate the regime. That's why their ex pats. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2025 #9

enid602

(9,755 posts)

1. LA

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:43 PM

Jun 2025

I imagine the fear in ‘Teherangeles’ is palpable.

IcyPeas

(25,797 posts)

2. Exactly. Will ICE round them up too?

Reply to enid602 (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:46 PM

Jun 2025

enid602

(9,755 posts)

3. Ice

Reply to IcyPeas (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:00 PM

Jun 2025

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

EllieBC

(3,639 posts)

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

Reply to enid602 (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:05 PM

Jun 2025

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

(9,755 posts)

5. Iranians

Reply to EllieBC (Reply #4)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:18 PM

Jun 2025

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

(3,639 posts)

6. True

Reply to enid602 (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:28 PM

Jun 2025

ICE would just make things 10000000 times worse.

ananda

(35,515 posts)

7. i used to have an Iranian friend

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:37 PM

Jun 2025

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

(23,204 posts)

8. I had a really good surgeon from Iran.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:43 PM

Jun 2025

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

DemocratSinceBirth

(102,012 posts)

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

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:44 PM

Jun 2025

I know that empirically and anecdotally.

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