Smoke seen rising over Kuwait City after apparent Iranian attack

Fatemeh Shams watched with bated breath as her native country came under military attack from the US and Israel over the weekend.

Living in the US since 2009, she is among Iranian-American exiles who have opposed the Tehran regime from afar, and so she does not mourn the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Saturday’s bombing.

“We all have very mixed feelings about what’s happening,” Fatemeh, based in Philadelphia, told the BBC. “On the one hand, we are extremely happy that our killers… they no longer breathe.