The founder of ‘Tehran,’ a magazine for Iranian expats, explains how he chose such magical words to describe Persian men like Sam Asghari, who just became the prince to America’s pop princess
Persians in America love to point to famous people and say, “Did you know they’re Persian?” So it was no surprise to find a wedding photo of Britney Spears and her famous-enough Persian husband Sam Asghari on the cover of Tehran, the most widely distributed Persian magazine in the U.S. More surprising, however, was the cover line: “Once you go Persian, there’s no other version.”