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Many Iranian-Americans are active philanthropists and leaders in improving their community. In 2006, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center was the recipient of a $10 million donation from an Iranian-American couple based in Houston, Texas.
The 2000 Census Bureau estimates that the Iranian American community (including the US-born children of the Iranian foreign born) numbers around 330,000. Studies using alternative statistical methods have estimated the actual number of Iranian Americans in the range of 691,000 to 1.2 million.
Iranian immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As the 1979 Iranian Revolution unfolded, large numbers of Iranians fled Iran. Many of them settled in Los Angeles. [4] [5] Many Iranian immigrants, including Muslims, Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews, originated from the upper classes. [6] [7]
It remains unclear how many Iranian-Americans are held by Tehran, which does not recognize dual citizenship. ... a British-American conservationist of Iranian descent who was arrested in 2018 and ...
Shaban Jafari, Iranian political figure, practitioner of Pahlevani and zoorkhaneh rituals. Key figure in the facilitation of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Exiled to the United States soon after the 1979 revolution; Cyrus Javadi, Oregon state representative [38] Anna Kaplan (née Anna Monahemi), first Iranian-American elected to New York State ...
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The following is a list of Iranians or people of Iranian descent by net worth who are reported by Forbes and other mainstream news outlets to have estimated net worth in excess of US$500 million. World rank