Smoke seen rising over Kuwait City after apparent Iranian attack

Smoke seen rising over Kuwait City after apparent Iranian attack

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“The fact that [Khamenei] was killed in less than a moment, after 38 years of corruption and crime, it kind of feels that we didn’t have any control over the justice we had been fighting for.”

She is not the only member of the Iranian diaspora in America with mixed feelings. Some expressed concerns about the death toll and how long the conflict might last.

But many rallied across the US to celebrate Khamenei’s death, in cities from Boston to Washington DC and Los Angeles.

On Sunday in LA – a city sometimes dubbed Tehrangeles as it is home to more than a third of the 400,000 Iranian immigrants in the US – police closed streets outside a federal building so demonstrators could celebrate.

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