Arman Ariane was born in Tehran, Iran in 1960 and studied in Vienna, Austria. Arman  moved to Southern California in the 1986 and lives in Los Angeles County with his wife Mojgan and their two sons Parsa and Kourosh (shown in the picture). Arman is a very active member of the Zoroastrian community of southern California and has been instrumental in establishment of courses on Zoroastrianism at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California. In the Winter of 2004 through the efforts of Arman, a grandiose celebration of Sadeh at the Claremont University was hold for the benefit of the general public. The celebration proved to be very successful.