American restaurateur Hoss Zaré said Momeni used to come to the Fly Trap, the restaurant he owned in San Francisco from 2008 to 2016. She would come in with friends for a night out and would ask to give compliments to the chef, so they began following each other on Instagram. “She was always pleasant, complimentary,” Zaré said. “A lot of Iranians, they come over there; they party, go out. She was always nice.” But the couple’s relationship may have been more complicated than Elyassnia’s interviews and social media would suggest.
