Los Angeles Business Owner Sets Out to Reform the City’s Charter

Restaurateur and member of the West Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Roozbeh Farahanipour at stands in his restaurant in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 18, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

When Roozbeh Farahanipour was granted political asylum in the United States after being imprisoned by Islamic militants in Iran for his activism against the regime in 1999, he devoted himself to building the American dream for the next 20 years.

And he did.