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Iran diaspora in ‘Tehrangeles’ dream of ‘regime change’
Despite Trump’s declaration of a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, many Iranians living in the US believe that it is time for a “regime change” in their homeland after close to five decades under clerical rule.
In an Iranian neighbourhood of Los Angeles, grocery owner Mohammad Ghafari told AFP news agency said that while he is worried about his relatives, he also cherishes the hope of change in his native country.
Iran “is not capable of providing food to the Persian people,” said Ghafari, who left to study abroad before the 1979 revolution and never returned.
“If the people (there) were happy about a change of regime, I would be too.”
Any talk of toppling Iran’s clerical leadership resonates strongly in the Los Angeles area, where nearly 200,000 Iranian-Americans live, according to AFP.
“Everyone would be happy,” agreed Fereshteh, one of Ghafari’s customers and a fellow resident of so-called “Tehrangeles” – a mash-up of Tehran and Los Angeles.
“It’s time for the Iranian people to rise up, because right now, the regime is very weak,” said Fereshteh, an Iranian of Jewish background who fled Iran in the 1980s during the war between her country and Iraq.
Iranian-American demonstrators gather to call for regime change in Iran during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles [Frederic J. Brown/AFP]