re: Not too many Iranians on this board but plenty of them in California
I am a big big fan of space, It's very interesting to work in NASA i can imagine, I know 1 Iranian in NASA, Dr. Firouz Naderi, manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. (I saw a news about it here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-033) I am really really proud of all NASA hard owrkers and also Iranians in NASA that are contributing to the field.
Yes too much Iranians in California, they even call Los Angeles as 'Tehran geles" ;-) because too many Iranians in LA. As you said, Most of them excaped from khomeini in the early 80's.