Anna Kaplan (née Anna Monahemi) is an American politician from Great Neck, New York.Kaplan, an Iranian-American, was born in Tabriz, Iran. She fled Iran as a child refugee as a result of the Iranian Revolution.Kaplan is the first Iranian-American elected to municipal office in New York State.Kaplan was born in Tabriz, and reared in Tehran, Iran, where her father was a carpet dealer. The family shared a 3-family house with the family of her uncle. Kaplan fled Iran at age 13 as an unaccompanied child refugee, arriving first in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, then going to live with a foster family in Chicago until her parents were able to escape from Iran. After her family reunited in the United States, they moved to Queens, New York, and then to Great Neck, New York. Wikipedia