Corinne Purtill

The Iranian community in Los Angeles is the largest concentration of Iranian immigrants, people of Iranian descent outside of Iran.

The bulk of that community was established here in L.A.

in the late 1970s, early 1980s.

immediately before, during, and after the Iranian revolution, but there have continued to be waves of immigration to the Los Angeles area from Iran.

There's obviously going to be a diversity of opinions, but the mood for many hundreds, if not a few thousand people who came out publicly yesterday just in this one area of Los Angeles alone was overwhelmingly a positive one.

I was ordering my tea and a man just burst through the door with his phone to his ear, like fist in the air, screaming like, my knee's dead, all pumped.

I sat with a group of men who had heard the news and then, you know, decided to gather at this cafe to be able to just kind of catch up with one another and say, like, can you believe this?

And everybody's phone was just rattling all over the table.

Texts from friends, family, all over the world, just, you know, in shock.

It's very much for this community, very much of a mood of celebration.

This was something that people had been waiting for, hoping for, for a very long time.

a lot of people I spoke with yesterday were really pleasantly surprised by was how many of their children, their adult children who are born in the United States, who are Americans, who don't speak Farsi, who have never set foot in Iran, how enthusiastic their children were about this news as well.

I spoke with a young couple yesterday, both of whom grew up in Jewish Iranian families here in the Los Angeles area.

And, you know, they said, we've been waiting, we've been raised our whole lives in preparation for this day.

That this is, even if you have never set foot in the country, this is still something that we have been waiting for.