Beverly Hills Mayor Sharona Nazarian fled Iran with her family during the revolution to escape religious persecution, learning English as her third language before building a career in clinical psychology.

Now the first Iranian American woman to lead the city, she governs a diverse community where roughly 20% of the population trace its roots to Iran. As war unfolds in the Middle East, she’s tells us, in this California Sun podcast how she’s become the de facto voice of a diaspora caught between American dreams and a longing for peace in their homeland.

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