WGBH News|Saul Gonzalez: If you want to see how improved US-Iran relations will play out on the ground in America, head to Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles. There's a stretch there called Little Persia and its the commercial heart of LAs large Iranian-American communityfull of Persian restaurants, bakeries and Farsi-language bookstores.
It's also ...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has admitted that an unarmed African-American man shot dead by a deputy last month was not a carjacking suspect they were seeking.
Donnell Thompson, 27, was shot at close range on July 28 by a deputy riding an armored vehicle as police were looking for suspects following a car chase and shootout inCompton....
The call came in to the rug store at 10:30 on Wednesday morning: After five days in U.S. customs, the shops first batch of carpets imported from Iran were ready for pickup.
Store owner Alex Helmi quickly gathered his employees and told them to drive to the airport to pick up the shipment: 40 handmade rugs valued at about $500,000.
I wanted to ...
Even before you taste the tangy, leavened Persian flatbread known as sangak or nan-e sangak, there is so much to marvel over. Made of whole wheat flour, its sold in sheets so long they could be used as a sesame-seed encrusted table runner at your next biblically-themed dinner party.
It can be found at most Persian markets packaged in plastic and ...
If rallies could vote, the Iran deal would lose in a landslide.
Supporters of the dealwho consist of a small minority of the Iranian expatriate community, and the radical left fringehave held several rallies across the country in recent weeks.
The largest of these, in Los Angeles, reached 200 participantsa tiny fraction of the 800,000-strong ...
Tehran, April 13, IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani congratulated the Iranian freestyle wrestling team on their winning the championship title at the US 2015 Men's Freestyle World Cup.
In a congratulatory message to the wresting squad as well as the Iranian nation and the sports community on Monday, President Rouhani expressed gratitude to the countrys ...
USA Wrestling says that Iran has pulled out of a dual meet set for Sunday in Los Angeles.
The organization said Friday that the Iranian Wrestling Federation told them the team's schedule has changed and that it has returned to Iran. No further reasons were given for Iran's departure.
USA Wrestling says it will instead host Russian and Canadian ...
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