 The Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles includes those who fled the 1979 Islamic revolution, the increased immigration after the 2009 Green Movement and those were born in the U.S. Southern California is also distinct from Northern California with its larger presence of Armenian Iranians and Iranian Jews.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.