After wrestling with those weighty questions, he posed a more workaday one: “What’s gonna be the gas price tomorrow?”Such is life for Iranian Americans in Los Angeles, a diaspora that makes up the largest Iranian community outside Iran. People shop at Stater Abbass Bakery and Market in Westwood as the local Iranian community comes to terms with the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)AdvertisementAbout 141,000 Iranian Americans live in L.A. County, according to the Iranian Data Dashboard, which is hosted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. The epicenter of the community is Westwood, where the namesake boulevard is speckled with storefronts covered in Persian script. Not far from Westwood, Beverly Hills’ prominent Iranian Jewish community was making its presence felt.
