{"id":1030,"date":"2006-05-09T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2006-05-09T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T15:46:04","slug":"exiles-in-tehrangeles-are-split-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/exiles-in-tehrangeles-are-split-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiles in ‘Tehrangeles’ Are Split on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“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><\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-gC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}