The Persians (8 images)

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Jamshid Afshar is a homeless Iranian man and refugee living on the streets of Las Vegas. Mokkhtar Hossein is an Iranian refugee who wants to help Jamshid get back on his feet by trying to get him the proper paperwork to get a job.
  • Jamshid Afshar is a homeless Iranian man and refugee living on the streets of Las Vegas. Mokkhtar Hossein is an Iranian refugee who wants to help Jamshid get back on his feet by trying to get him the proper paperwork to get a job. Jamshid, right, greets Mokhtar for the first time outside his tent on Foremaster Lane just north of downtown Las Vegas. Afshar has been living in the homeless tent camp since coming to Las Vegas.

  • Jamshid Afshar, left, and Mokhtar Hossein laugh and share smokes after meeting for the first time outside Afshar's tent on Foremaster Lane just north of downtown Las Vegas. Afshar has been living in the homeless tent camp since coming to Las Vegas.

  • Jamshid Afshar stands in front of the the Las Vegas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices after failing to receive paperwork requested from the DMV so he can get a government-issued ID card, a necessity for work. Afshar and Hossein had to make an appointment to come back to the offices to get the paperwork.

  • Jamshid Afshar gets a haircut and shave at Estela's Beauty Salon in Las Vegas, courtesy of his new friend Mokhtar Hossein.

  • A newly shorn Jamshid Afshar gets his photo taken at a Walgreen's photo center, one of the first steps in the paperwork process.

  • Jamshid Afshar receives his photos that were taken at a Walgreen's photo center, one of the first steps in the yearlong paperwork process that Mokhtar Hossein guided him through.

  • Jamshid Afshar finds rest for the night in his bunk at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada's shelter just north of downtown Las Vegas. The shelter is only a few hundred feet away from where Afshar slept on the street.

  • Jamshid Afshar walks down Foremaster Lane with all his belongings. Foremaster is Afshar's home, and ground zero for the Las Vegas homeless population.

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