Iranian Alert - March 20, 2005 - L.A. Is a Den of Iranian Intrigue and Ambition

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L.A. Is a Den of Iranian Intrigue and Ambition

Anne-Marie O'Connor, Greg Krikorian and H.G. Reza, LA Times:

Roozbeh Farahanipour was jailed and beaten during student protests in Iran in 1999. Today, he sits in a cramped office above a Persian-language bookstore on Westwood Boulevard, speaking in low tones about the pro-Tehran "agents" he says still dog him.

Two years ago, after hostile men confronted his Iranian activist group at public forums, he walked down

the bustling avenue — past Persian restaurants, Persian pop music vendors and the publisher of the 1,200-page Iranian Yellow Pages — to the FBI office a few blocks away.

There, he said, U.S. agents pressed him for details on espionage and provocateurs.

Such relationships are the political currency of the real-life Casablanca that is "Irangeles," the largest Iranian community outside Iran. Here, across miles of urban sprawl, from Encino to Beverly Hills to Westwood, intrigue over who might be spying on whom abounds.

Los Angeles has become a key location for gathering intelligence on Tehran. A CIA station here has spent a decade recruiting informants among Iranian expatriates and businessmen who travel to Iran. The local FBI field office is wooing Iranians as sources — and investigating others as potential terrorists or spies.

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DoctorZin reports, 3.20.2005:

HAPPY NEW PERSIAN YEAR TO OUR READERS

As we step into the new season and the new year, we wish you the best things in this coming year and we are also hopeful to see beautiful changes in your lives.

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• There are reports that an Iranian surface to air missile was used in Iraq.
• The Denver Post says now is a time for courage to stand with the women of Iran.
  
• Iranian dissident, Mr. Abbas Amir Entezam, (one of the world’s longest political prisoners) called for a national movement for referendum.
• A symbolic strike of Iran's petroleuml industry took place, just took place.
• And finally, Iran is developing a secret "nuclear university."

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[Joe Boucher]

I used to live in an apartment in North Hollywood. It was a singles apartment and there were several Iranian students that lived there.

The inbreads used to bar-b-que lambs in the middle of their living rooms.

And try as hard as possible to get laid by American weman.

Drink like fish and smell.

[freedom44]

Odd. I don't think i've ever met a single Iranian in the US who doesn't dress to impress at all times, drive a BMW or Mercedes or another high end vehicle and hold an upper level graduate degree or seek to.

And smell bad?!? That's the oddest thing I've ever heard of Iranians ever. You sure they weren't Pakis or Indians?

[Clemenza]

Iranian women smell very nice, although they come at a price...

Joe, what you describe sounds like some of the Pakistanis I knew at the U of Chicago.

[DoctorZIn]

I agree. Iranians like to dress first class and look like a million bucks. The love cologne.

But they are interested in the ladies.

[freedom44]

'I agree. Iranians like to dress first class and look like a million bucks. The love cologne.

But they are interested in the ladies.'

<-- Guilty

[F14 Pilot]

happy new persian year

[F14 Pilot]

You met some Arabs probably ;-) not Persians

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