Ramtin Arablouei

Their answer seems to really come from a sense of nostalgia about what it was like to be in Iran before the Islamic revolution.

They look back at that time with nostalgic feelings.

And this is what Holly Dagress, an expert from the Washington Institute, told me when I asked her that same question.

Yes, definitely.

I mean, as listeners will know, the U.S.

and Israel have now conducted a massive air attack, which is ongoing.

Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed.

But that anti-regime feeling...

that was really alive back in January, especially for Iranian Americans, that's still very much alive.

And the thing is, people seem to understand, the people we asked today, that the U.S.

and Israel are not necessarily doing this to help the Iranian people.

I asked one protester named Ramin that very same question.

He didn't want to give us his last name because he said he feared reprisal from the government in Iran if he gave it to us.

But I asked him that question directly.

Do you think the U.S.

and Israel are doing this to help the Iranian people?

And his answer was really interesting.

First, I want to say that the crowd that we talk to today is definitely not representative of the entire Iranian American diaspora.

There are lots of complex views.

There are many Iranian Americans who are against this war.