Meeting with the Mayor

I had the unexpected fortune of meeting with the recently elected mayor of Beverly Hills, Mr. Jimmy Delshad, at a special gathering of Iranian-Americans promoting the world-wide installation of a statue representing Cyrus the Great.

I enjoyed a tete a tete with the mayor, in which he discussed his recent trip to China and his intention of starting a sister city program with a city in the Canton Provence of the country. In addition, he hopes to create additional diversity-fueled projects that I think would well represent the international citizenry of Beverly Hills. This includes a potential sister city program between Beverly Hills and his hometown of Shiraz, Iran.

Mayor Delshad is the first Iranian-American to hold public office in Beverly Hills. I hope he will continue to be a model example of Iranian-Americans and Jewish Iranian-Americans in the country.