An Iranian popstar exiled by the Ayatollah has devoted his life to toppling the Iranian government by beaming satellite TV of he and his pals in Los Angeles into Iran. He's figured out how to circumvent the sat-jamming that the Mullahs' regime use to keep his programming out, and he's a major, by-God phenom among Iranian young people.
Buried in the hundreds of thousands of Iranians living in Los Angeles there was a neglected trove of aging Persian entertainers unwelcome in their home country. The Dan Rather of Iran now lived in Encino. The Frank Sinatra of Iran lived in Sherman Oaks. Atabay found the real star power he was looking for in a journalist named Ali Reza Meybodi, who also lived in Sherman Oaks. The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a throwback to an earlier age of TV talk shows. He's more like the David Frost of Iran. Or was, until he, too, was forced to flee Iran for his life.
(via Amygdala)
