Little joy to be found among Iranian Americans over the war and Iranâs future: âI have righteous angerâ
Iranians in the diaspora are divided as Friday rang in Persian new year and the war on their homeland reached three-week mark When Israeli and American missiles first started falling on Tehran, and as news of the death of Iranâs supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leaked out, Nasser, a sixtysomething Iranian American dad from Boston who regularly travels to Iran, briefly experienced something akin to optimism. He âfelt a flash of hopeâ, he told me, âor maybe vengeance, when Khamenei and his circle were hitâ. It was a common sentiment among the millions of Iranians in the North American diaspora who have, for multiple reasons, come to reject the rule of the velayat-e-faqih, or the âguardianship of the Islamic juristâ, the Islamic Republicâs governing doctrine. Many Iranians inside and outside the country had just recently held Khamenei directly responsible for the horrific bloodshed during the mass protests in January. If the top leadership of the Islamic republic was decapitated, perhaps, many believed, Iran could forge a different future. But now, after three weeks of all-out war on his homeland and with thousands of dead Iranians, damage to cultural heritage s
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