NYT:
“I love my country, but I hate these mullahs,” said Houshang Samandi, a television director for an Iranian satellite channel whose life in Los Angeles remains so completely Iranian that after 14 years he still asks a fellow exile to translate the word “sanctions.”
“Sanctions will only harm the ordinary people,” Mr. Samandi said. “If there is a military attack, they will be killing my people. But if they don’t attack, the mullahs will never leave.”
I think this sums up how many Iranians in the U.S. feel about potential war against Iran. That said, I think it’s a similar sentiment that I also heard expressed by an Iraqi friend of mine from graduate school, talking about what his feelings were about the American invasion of his homeland.
