Local journalists told ABC News that thousands of people gathered at the site northeast of Rafah in the hope of receiving food aid, but there was not enough to satisfy demand when distribution began.
Protests, chaos and violence have rocked Iran in recent months and threatened the very nature of the country's regime, which has been in power for more than 40 years.
"Keep the memory of the people fighting in Iran alive," said the owner of the Persian Gulf Café in Westwood, who's also an Iranian dissident. "I cannot be with them but my heart is with them."
Iranian-Americans caravanned from San Diego to Los Angeles Saturday where they marched through the streets in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran.
Hundreds of people attended a rally in Orange County on Sunday sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman in Iran.
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski and two human rights groups, Memorial, from Russia, and Center for Civil Liberties.