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Iranian Americans support Israel’s attacks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and other military sites, and on scientists who are part of the regime’s nuclear program, leaders and activists in the expat Iranian community told JNS.
“After years of failed diplomacy and hollow warnings, Israel’s decision to act was not only justified. It was necessary,” Amir Hamidi, an Iranian American activist and board member of the southern California-based Institute for Voices of Liberty, told JNS.
“When enforcement collapses and the international community hesitates, those who are threatened must defend themselves,” Hamidi said. “Israel acted not out of aggression but necessity. Its targeted strikes were intended to prevent a much larger conflict—one that the regime in Tehran has steadily provoked.”
Andrew Ghalili, a senior policy analyst at the Washington nonprofit National Union for Democracy in Iran, told JNS that many Iranians and Iranian Americans in Iran blame the regime leader Ali Khamenei for the destruction in the country. They believe that the regime’s “supreme leader” has refused to dismantle its nuclear program and has provoked war with the Jewish state for years, according to Ghalili.
“No Iranian asked for this war,” Ghalili told JNS. “The Iranian people have been saying ‘no’ to this regime for years—in the streets, at the ballot box through mass boycotts and in every act of civil resistance.”
“After years of failed diplomacy and hollow warnings, Israel’s decision to act was not only justified. It was necessary,” Amir Hamidi, an Iranian American activist and board member of the southern California-based Institute for Voices of Liberty, told JNS.
“When enforcement collapses and the international community hesitates, those who are threatened must defend themselves,” Hamidi said. “Israel acted not out of aggression but necessity. Its targeted strikes were intended to prevent a much larger conflict—one that the regime in Tehran has steadily provoked.”
Andrew Ghalili, a senior policy analyst at the Washington nonprofit National Union for Democracy in Iran, told JNS that many Iranians and Iranian Americans in Iran blame the regime leader Ali Khamenei for the destruction in the country. They believe that the regime’s “supreme leader” has refused to dismantle its nuclear program and has provoked war with the Jewish state for years, according to Ghalili.
“No Iranian asked for this war,” Ghalili told JNS. “The Iranian people have been saying ‘no’ to this regime for years—in the streets, at the ballot box through mass boycotts and in every act of civil resistance.”