Iranian Americans
People of Iranian descent living in the USA are referred to as Irano-Americans or Persian-Americans . They belong to the most educated population groups there: every fourth person has a master's or doctoral degree.
There has been steady emigration from Iran to the USA since the 1980s. Most Iranians living abroad now live in the United States. Estimates vary between half a million and two million Iranian-Americans; most of them live in the greater LA area, also known as "Tehrangeles" or "Irangeles".
Web links
Commons : Iranian-Americans - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files
- PARSA Community Foundation
- Iranian-American workers by occupation , New York Times
- Persian American Networking Development (PAND)
- Report into the life of Iranian-Americans from Iranian.com
- American Iranian Council Promoting Iranian American Participation in Civic Life
- National Iranian American Council Promoting Iranian American Participation in American Civic Life
- Iranian-American Muslim Association of North America (IMAN Foundation, بنیاد ایمان)
- Fact sheet on the Iranian-American Community (ISG MIT)
- Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) Representing the interests of the Irano-American community
- Iranian-American Organizations
- Iranian American Political Action Committee
- Autobiographical writings by Iranian-Americans - dissertation at the Graduate College of the University of Rostock
Individual evidence
- ↑ Often used synonymously. Some exiled Iranians prefer to refer to themselves as Persians in order to distance themselves from the current political regime in Iran; on the other hand there are also non-Persian Iranians.
- ^ Migration Information Source - Spotlight on the Iranian Foreign Born . Migrationinformation.org. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
- ^ Iranian-Americans Reported Among Most Highly Educated in US . Payvand.com. November 24, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2010.