He shakes out a small handwoven rug with a peacock design. "This one is $25,000," he says. A lot of his customers are Beverly Hills millionaires. The opulence seems far removed from the horrors of war, but for Eric, who left Iran aged 15, his homeland is never far from mind.
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Portraits of the shahs, the monarchs who ruled Iran until the 1979 revolution, are displayed on the wall. The tricolour flag is hanging in the doorway, and in Eric there is optimism that the war launched by the US will result in a freer Iran.
"I was just watching the news in Iran. They're all joyous," he says. "They are being bombed. At the same time, they're okay with it. It's amazing. I mean, I'm sitting here, I'm cheering, but I'm not under the threat of bombs."
I ask if Eric thinks Donald Trump did the right thing by launching strikes.
"Donald Trump is doing a favour for the whole humanity," he says. "Keeping these people's hands off nuclear bombs. And some people, like Democrats, they're full of baloney. They created this monster."
Eric's father is 91 and still lives in Tehran. They usually communicate via WhatsApp, but since the war broke out two weeks ago, communication channels have been shut down, and he's been relying on his father to contact him.
"My dad says it is chaos there, but he's not afraid of the bombs; collateral damage is a part of war," he says.
"God forbid, if my father gets killed, I would understand. I'm not going to be against it happening, there is a price to pay for freedom. Two months ago, 50,000 of our citizens got murdered - that bothers me. But we are trying to get free from this evil Nazi regime."
The Westwood and Beverly Hills areas of Los Angeles are home to the biggest diaspora of Iranians anywhere in the world. It's known colloquially as Tehrangeles or Little Persia.
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In Atari cafe, in so-called Persian Square, the birthplace of the Iranian business community here, waiters bring out platefuls of kebabs and rice. Serge Abdishoo, who left Iran with his family aged eight, is waiting to meet a friend.
"It feels like we're on the cusp of finally being able to breathe again after 47 years, if it's actually successful," he says. "But I mean first and foremost, my concern is for America... this is the country that's been housing us, caring for us all these years.
"What are the repercussions to Americans? Innocent lives can easily be lost here due to that. I hope Homeland Security has a plan in place and that things have been controlled, but I'm very concerned."
Mohammad Ghafarian owns a bakery and fruit and vegetable shop selling lavash bread, dates and other fresh food to a mostly Persian customer base. Mohammad, who has been in America for 53 years, is desperately hoping for change in Iran.
"I would love to go back to at least visit my brothers, my sisters," he says. "In the end, I think this war is not finished so soon. But we're going to have a hard time in America because of the prices going up, the price of oil going up, price of everything, grocery, everything goes up."
The American intervention isn't universally popular here. Aida, who is of Armenian descent, is running errands in Tehrangeles.
"I have many Iranian friends, and I understand they want a new regime, but this is not something so easy. It is a mess," she says.
"This is not gonna end unless somebody throws a bomb, a nuclear bomb. Because right now, it will be one fighting with the other. How can this end so quickly? Donald Trump won't and Iran is [intent on] revenge. So when revenge is in the game, that game doesn't get over so quickly."
Aida is one of few dissenting voices in this area, though. Seven thousand miles from Iran, the overwhelming majority here support the war in their homeland and celebrate the US president who brought it about.
The city's mayor Femke Halsema said she believed the blast was a "deliberate attack against the Jewish community".
The incident happened early on Saturday, and police and fire services responded quickly.
Damage to the school in an upmarket residential neighbourhood on the south side of Amsterdam was limited.
And no injuries have been reported.
Police are investigating camera footage appearing to show the person who detonated the explosive.
"This is a cowardly act of aggression against the Jewish community," Ms Halsema said.
"Jewish people in Amsterdam are increasingly confronted with antisemitism. This is unacceptable."
Tight security at Jewish schools and institutions has been strengthened even more following attacks in recent days on synagogues in Rotterdam and in Liege, Belgium.
There was also an attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, near Detroit in Michigan on Thursday, where a Lebanese-born US citizen allegedly rammed his car into the building.
Authorities said the attacker, who was armed with a rifle, was fatally shot.
None of the synagogue's staff, teachers or the 140 children at its early childhood centre were injured.
Federal investigators said the Michigan incident was an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.
Fears about possible attacks against Jewish communities around the world have increased following US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and a subsequent military response from Tehran.
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John Brackenbury died in 2016 after doctors at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge prioritised another patient for treatment.
Despite several recommendations being made after John's death, whistleblowers at the hospital have told Sky News that changes didn't happen.
Mr Brackenbury's daughter, Jenny Dunk, said it's "despicable" that lessons weren't learnt from his death.
"Nobody cared, nobody saw dad as a human being, you know, they're all about kind of looking after themselves and their own egos and protecting each other," Jenny said.
John was admitted to Addenbrooke's in November 2016 after suffering a brain haemorrhage, which needed treatment within 48 hours.
His family were initially relieved when he was transferred to the hospital, which has a world-leading neuroscience department.
But clinicians unexpectedly chose to operate on a different patient.
"We were told that there was an unfortunate sequence of events and they took the wrong person. They took an 85-year-old Mrs B instead of a 70-year-old Mr B," John's widow Jean explained.
John's operation was delayed until the following day, but he died overnight.
His daughter Jenny said: "He was just left in a bed, nil-by-mouth, and abandoned."
John's death was avoidable, but his family had to fight for answers and an apology.
His widow describes John's treatment as "completely cruel".
"There didn't seem to be any communication whatsoever between the surgical staff and the ward staff," Jean said.
An inquest and an investigation by Addenbrooke's both found failings and made recommendations for the neurosciences team.
But whistleblowers at the hospital told us those changes were not made.
We heard that almost a decade after John died, the toxic culture and disorganisation remain, and that means patient safety is still a problem.
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Sky News recently revealed the trust has ordered a rapid review of the neurosciences service after concerns were raised.
This is the second time we've uncovered reviews being ordered into departments at the world-renowned hospital.
An investigation is still under way into the suspended surgeon Kuldeep Stohr after serious issues with some of her operations on children.
Both cases raise questions about whether managers could have acted sooner.
And this is what makes John's family angry.
His daughter told us: "I'm furious and cross. It feels like his death was in vain. We didn't want that; we wanted to protect other people.
"The fact that I'm hearing nearly 10 years on nothing has changed, I just think it is absolutely despicable. There's no accountability," she said.
Dr Sue Broster, chief medical officer at Cambridge University Hospitals, said: "We remain saddened by Mr Brackenbury's death, and our thoughts are with his family.
"We are committed to learning any lessons we can from his family's experience to improve the service we offer to patients, and would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with his family.
"The trust recognises that our decision to commission an external review into our neurosciences services has caused concern for Mr Brackenbury's family and for some of our patients, and we are sorry for the distress this has caused."
John's family are now considering whether to meet the trust.
Madeleine Lonsdale, 18, had been racing another car at 100mph before she struck a tree in Marston, Lincolnshire, on 20 June last year, killing passengers Harrison Carter, 18, and George Stephenson, 17.
She partied "repeatedly" in the months after their deaths, frequently uploaded to TikTok and her first court appearance was delayed for two weeks because she went on a skiing trip.
On Friday she was sentenced to 14 months behind bars, having earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of causing the teenagers' deaths by careless or inconsiderate driving.
Mr Carter and Mr Stephenson had been passengers in Lonsdale's Kia Niro when the three headed to an Esso petrol station off the A1 in the early hours of the morning.
The car was travelling at 76mph when Lonsdale misjudged a bend in the 60mph road, killing both passengers almost immediately.
Lonsdale, who passed her driving test about 12 weeks before the crash, escaped with just a small injury to her wrist.
Moments earlier, Lonsdale had been racing another friend on the A1 - briefly travelling at 100mph, the court heard.
Sarah Carter said of her son, who wanted to pursue a career in law: "Harry was taken from us because Madeleine chose to speed.
"He will never be able to celebrate the amazing exam results that he achieved."
Ms Carter said it "adds insult to injury" that Lonsdale was "partying repeatedly" and "choreographing TikToks" while she planned her son's funeral.
Victoria Stephenson, George's mother, told the court: "We will never see him graduate or find a job after university.
"We didn't get to celebrate his 18th birthday with him. Instead, we had his funeral."
She said that when Lonsdale went on a skiing trip, delaying her first court appearance by two weeks, it "only added to the torment".
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John McNally, defending Lonsdale, said: "She knows that there is nothing she can say, do, to take the pain away.
"She knows it will weigh heavily on her for the rest of her life.
"Her regret for what happened is deep and … her friends will remain, and are, in her thoughts."
Lonsdale was disqualified from driving for three years.
The big honours started with a Critics Choice award in January. A Golden Globe followed, then a BAFTA, and most recently, a statuette at the Actor Awards.
Buckley is the only acting nominee to take home all four this year, and she has picked up other smaller awards, too. The Oscar, it seems, is hers to lose.
Gold Derby, the LA based authority when it comes to awards predictions, rates her chance of winning at an almost unbeatable 97%. "It's really been a crazy award season, it's been pretty unprecedented," says Debra Birnbaum, the site's editor-in-chief. But Buckley, she says, "is a sure thing... a pretty safe bet".
If Buckley does win, she will make history - the first Irish actress ever to take home the award.
The 36-year-old is being recognised for her portrayal of Agnes, the wife of Shakespeare in Chloe Zhao's Hamnet. The film chronicles the couple's grief following the death of their young son, and puts the bard, played by Paul Mescal, in the backseat as Agnes's story takes centre stage. Buckley's raw, emotive performance has moved audiences to tears.
In a sea of A-list Oscar nominees, including two-time winner Emma Stone, critics have singled her out as "one of the finest actresses of her generation".
"To be in a room with all those incredible artists, that, for me, is the greatest thing," Buckley told Sky News last month, speaking about her awards and nominations. "That and being a mom."
The actress gave birth to her first child, a girl, last year, and she has paid tribute to her in her speeches so far. "I'd like to share this with my daughter," she said of her BAFTA. "I promise to continue to be disobedient so that you can belong to a world in all your mad, complex wildness as a young woman."
This is Buckley's second Oscar nomination; her first was for best supporting actress, for her performance in The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman, in 2022. She has also starred in other Oscar-nominated films, such as Women Talking, alongside Rooney Mara and Claire Foy, and Judy, opposite Renee Zellweger, and won several awards for her leading performance in the West End revival of Cabaret.
But she has been quietly honing her talents since she was young, growing up in Killarney, Co Kerry. Her rise to fame came when she was a teenager, appearing on the BBC reality show I'd Do Anything, which sought to find an unknown lead to play Nancy in the West End revival of the musical Oliver!, in 2008.
Buckley came second, but continued to pursue her love for the stage and screen. She went on to appear in series including Taboo and The Last Post, before breakout roles in British films Beast and Wild Rose, and the critically acclaimed HBO/ Sky series Chernobyl.
Back in 2019, when Wild Rose was released, Buckley said she grew up without a TV at home until she was "about eight or nine", and that her first experience of wanting to act was watching a "Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland film... it was like my mind had been exploded into kind of like magic".
Now, not only has she reached the highest accolades for her achievements on screen, but she is also a Mercury Prize nominee, too - shortlisted in 2022 for her collaborative album For All Our Days That Tear The Heart, with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler.
'You couldn't take your eyes off her'
For those who knew her at the Ursuline Secondary School, in Co Tipperary, her success has come as no surprise. Music teacher Joan Butler, who joined the school in 2006, Buckley's final year, says it was clear she would go on to big things.
"We're so proud of all our students here, but Jessie stood out… even as she began along her career path, as being somebody with a very special talent," she says. "She was in a production of West Side Story in my first year teaching… Spellbinding is the word we use here as we've been talking about her and remembering her time here.
"You couldn't take your eyes off Jessie on the stage or when she was singing or even at the piano. It's a star quality that is very, very rare. I can still remember I was playing violin in the pit orchestra, looking up the stage... the whole room just stopped, mouths open, watching this rehearsal. And I remember turning to some of the students and going, watch her girls, she's going to win an Oscar one day."
Now, Buckley could very well achieve that dream.
After seeing the actress tackling such physically and emotionally demanding scenes during the filming of Hamnet, her cast and crewmates say it has been incredible to see her hard work and talent recognised.
Hamnet set decorator Alice Felton, who is also up for an Oscar herself, nominated in the production design category, says they have "all been in tears" watching Buckley receive her awards.
"Because we watched her throughout filming give her heart and soul to that," she says. "We'd be crying at the edge of set before the music was laid in, before everything was done.
"She's a beautiful person. She gave everything to that role and she's part of the team. She used to sleep in the bed in the attic [in their house in the film]. So I'd go up to redress the set and she'd be tucked up having a little nap. She just lived in the spaces and we're all so happy for her."
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In Los Angeles in the days leading up to the Oscars ceremony each year, the US-Ireland Alliance hosts the Oscar Wilde Awards, celebrating Irish talent.
They have had a lot to toast in recent years, including nine nominations for The Banshees Of Inisherin (starring another former Ursuline pupil, Kerry Condon) in 2023. And in 2024, Cillian Murphy became the first Irish star to win best actor, for his performance in Oppenheimer.
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This year, Buckley is the person everyone is talking about.
Gleeson, who starred alongside her in the animated Christmas special The Scarecrows' Wedding, told Sky News: "We're already celebrating Jessie Buckley.
"She is an absolutely amazing actor. She's so incredible in the film and I'll be delighted, delighted if she wins. But we celebrate her all the time."
Singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy also highlighted Buckley's musical talents. "I think people are largely unaware of how great a singer she is," he said. "She's just an incredibly talented person, so we're very excited for her."
And speaking at the premiere of the Peaky Blinders film earlier this month, Murphy himself showed his support. "She's incredible," he told Sky News. "I'm just so happy for her, she's unbelievable in that film."
For the young students at Ursuline hoping to follow in Buckley's footsteps, the actress is an inspiration.
"We are so excited to see everything that will come after this as well," Ms Butler says. "Thank you so much to her for everything that she has done in inspiring our students and showing them what can be possible."